Wadih el-Hage
| Wadih el-Hage | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Wadih Elias el-Hage (Arabic: وديع الحاج) July 25, 1960 Sidon, Lebanon |
| Occupation | Secretary for Osama bin Laden |
| Spouse(s) | April el-Hage |
| Children | 7 |
Wadih Elias el-Hage (Arabic: وديع الحاج, Wadī‘ al-Ḥāj) (born July 25, 1960) is a former al-Qaeda member who is serving life imprisonment in the United States for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. He was indicted and arrested in 1998, and convicted on all counts and sentenced to life without parole in 2001. His sentence was overturned in 2008 because it was based on federal mandatory sentencing guidelines invalidated by the US Supreme Court in 2005. He was re-sentenced to life without parole in 2013. El-Hage and his co-defendants are currently in the supermax prison known as ADX Florence.
Wadih el-Hage is also known as "Abd'al Sabur" or "Abdel Saboor", both different transliterations of Abdus Sabur, and "the Manager".
El-Hage was born to a Maronite Christian family on 25 July 1960 in Sidon, Lebanon but grew up in Muslim Kuwait, where he converted to Islam. From 1978 he studied urban planning at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then named the University of Southwestern Louisiana. El-Hage interrupted his schooling to travel to Afghanistan via Pakistan to participate in the fighting against the USSR. He was reportedly under Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, an important figure in the early history of al-Qaeda. El-Hage returned to his university in January 1985, graduating in 1986. Married by now, to 18-year-old American Muslim named April, he relocated to Arizona, where he held several low-wage jobs including city custodian. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1989.
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