Life
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah was born in Egypt in 1963. Like other Islamic fugitives, Abdullah fled to Egypt to join the others. In 1992 he was one of the many who helped Saif al-Adel in providing intelligence and military training to those associated with Al Qaeda in Somalia and Sudan. Those who were trained, were among the group who fought against the Americans during the battle on Mogadishu and Operation Restoring Hope in 1993. Also between 1996 and 1998 he operated training camps in Afghanistan for Al Qaeda. Abdullah was responsible for forging a passport for Mohammed Saddiq Odeh so he could get from Pakistan to Afghanistan before the attack on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. After these attacks, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah has remained on the USA's most wanted list of terrorists and remains a terrorists operations planner for Al Qaeda.
Abdullah told colleagues he had been a professional soccer player for the Ghazl El-Mehalla team in Egypt.
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