Role in Al-Qaeda
Mohammed and a number of others were under indictment in the United States for their alleged participation in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa. He was searched with an Interpol arrest warrant since 1998. Mohammed was on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists since its inception on October 10, 2001. The reward for finding Mohammed was US$5 million.
In Kenya, Mohammed was once the secretary of, and lived in the same house as, Wadih el-Hage. El-Hage was indicted with Mohammed, and has been convicted. A letter to el-Hage, thought to be from Mohammed, was exhibited at el-Hage's trial.
Mohammed spent time in Mogadishu planning a truck bombing against a United Nations establishment there, and was in the city on October 3, 1993, when Somali gunmen brought down two American helicopters and killed 18 U.S. special operations soldiers.
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