Mohammed Odeh
Mohammed Saddiq Odeh (born 1 March 1965)[1] is a Palestinian terrorist and one of the four former al-Qaeda members sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001 for their parts in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. He is currently incarcerated in the United States Penitentiary in Coleman, Florida.
| Mohammed Saddiq Odeh | |
|---|---|
 Odeh being transported to United States from Kenya | |
| Born | 1 March 1965[1] Tabouk, Saudi Arabia |
| Arrested | 1998 Karachi, Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence and FBI |
| Citizenship | Jordanian and Kenyan |
| Detained at | United States Penitentiary, Coleman I, Florida [2] |
| Alternate name | Khalid Salim |
| ISN | 42375-054 |
| Alleged to be a member of | al-Qaeda |
| Charge(s) | 1998 US embassy attacks |
| Penalty | life imprisonment (2001) |
| Status | in prison |
| Spouse | Nassem Nassor born August 15, 1969 [1] |
| Children | Yasser Boy |
In March 1993, Saif al-Adel ordered Mohammed Odeh to Somalia, telling him that his mission was to train tribes in fighting.[3] He has been accused of training forces loyal to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid in 1993, while other sources have suggested he was training Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya members.[4][5] The following year he was sent to Mombasa, Kenya with money from Mohammed Atef to purchase himself a 7-tonne trawler and start a fishing business.[6]
An engineer with joint Kenyan and Jordanian citizenship, Odeh was arrested after departing his flight from Nairobi to Karachi with a forged Yemeni passport with a photograph that clearly did not match his face.[4] He was interrogated by ISI agents when he listed his flight destination as "Afghanistan", and confessed to his role in the bombings, claiming that seven men had plotted them together. A week later he was returned to Nairobi, where he was taken into custody of the FBI. The FBI interrogated him from 15 August to 27 August 1998, wherein FBI's Special Agent Daniel Coleman confirmed that he had accepted responsibility for the bombing.[7][8][9]
References
- http://americanjihadists.com/1998-08-31-FBI-FD302-Odeh-all.pdf
- Inmate Locator, Federal Bureau of Prisons: Mohamed Siddiq Odeh #42375-054
- Bergen, Peter, "The Osama bin Laden I Know', 2006.
- Benjamin, Daniel & Steven Simon. "The Age of Sacred Terror", 2002
- Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Security Intelligence Report concerning Mohamed Harkat, February 22, 2008
- Simon Reeve, The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism, London: Deutsch Limited, 1999, p. 4
- Woman speaks out 15 years after her husband’s Mohammed Odeh arrest
- About FBI’s Special Agent Daniel Coleman
- Katz, Samuel M. "Relentless Pursuit: The DSS and the manhunt for the al-Qaeda terrorists", 2002
- Copy of indictment USA v. Usama bin Laden et al., Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2001-11-10)
- Four embassy bombers get life, CNN.com, By Phil Hirschkorn, October 21, 2001