Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah (Arabic: عبدالله أحمد عبدالله; born about 1963) is an Egyptian national wanted by the United States for his part in the 1998 American embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. The FBI lists his aliases Abu Mariam, Abu Mohamed Al-Masri, and Saleh, which may be an abbreviation of Saleh Gamal. According to the indictment, Abdullah
- is a member of the majlis al shura of al-Qaeda
- helped (with Saif al-Adel) to set up terrorist training facilities in Somalia
- provided a false passport to Mohammed Saddiq Odeh to enable the latter to travel to Afghanistan to meet Osama bin Laden
- told Odeh that he should leave Kenya by August 6, 1998 (the day before the bombings)
- fled Kenya himself, to Karachi, on the same airliner as Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani.
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