Abu Mohammed al-Masri

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah عبدالله أحمد عبدالله
Senior al-Qaeda suspect
Born	December 1963 (1963-12) (age 53) Egypt
Known for	Being placed on the list of FBI Most Wanted Terrorists 1998 United States embassy bombings

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah (Arabic: عبدالله أحمد عبدالله‎‎; born about 1963), known as Abu Mohammed al-Masri, is an Egyptian high-ranking member of al-Qaeda. He is wanted by the United States for his alleged role in the 1998 American embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. He has been described as Al-Qaeda’s most experienced operational planner.

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah was born in Egypt in 1963. According to Abdullah, he was once a professional soccer player for the Ghazl El-Mehalla team in Egypt.

In 1992 he helped Saif al-Adel in providing intelligence and military training to those associated with Al Qaeda in Somalia and Sudan. It is sometimes claimed that his trainees were among the group who fought against the Americans during the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993.

According to United States indictment issued for his alleged role in the 1998 United States embassy bombings, Abdullah is a member of the 'majlis al-shura' of al-Qaeda. It is alleged that 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 and meet Osama bin Laden before the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.