Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali ( ar, أحمد محمّد حامد علي) ( - 2010) was an Egyptian national wanted by the United States government in connection with the

1998 United States embassy bombings The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 200 people were killed in nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in two East African cities, one at the United States Embassy in Dar es Salaam, ...

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, Tanzania, and Nairobi.

Aliases

Life before the bombings

It is thought that, before becoming an accomplice in bombing various American embassies, Ali worked in the field of agriculture, with formal training in the industry."Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali." FBI Most Wanted Terrorists. The Federal Bureau of Investigation. 23 June 2008 American Homeland Security officials considered Ali an operative of

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. Ali had been part of an al Qaeda cell operating in Somalia in the early 1990s that provided training to Somali tribesmen who attacked U.S. forces in that country, according to his indictment. Ali lived in Kenya until fleeing the country on August 2, 1998. He located himself in Karachi, Pakistan until the bombings on August 7, 1998.

Indicted for the 1998 American embassy bombings

Ali was indicted for his suspected role in the

by a grand jury in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York."Wanted Ahmed Mohamed Hamed Ali Up to $5 Million Reward." Rewards for Justice: Seeking Information Against International Terrorism. The United US Department of State. 23 June 2008. The United States Government's

Rewards for Justice The Rewards for Justice Program (RFJ) is the counterterrorism and counterintelligence platform administered by the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service agency. The Rewards For Justice program is seeking information leading to the ...

program had offered a 5 million US dollar reward for information directly leading to the capture of Hamed Ali. On October 10, 2001, he was placed on the initial list of the FBI's top 22 Most Wanted Terrorists. He served as al-Qaeda's chief of paramilitary operations for Afghanistan.

Death

The National Counterterrorism Center reported on February 21, 2011 that Ali was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan in 2010. By May 2012, Ali was no longer listed as a wanted terrorist by either Rewards for Justice or the FBI.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ali, Ahmed Mohammed Hamed 1965 births FBI Most Wanted Terrorists Egyptian al-Qaeda members Assassinated al-Qaeda leaders Deaths by United States drone strikes in Pakistan 2010 deaths Egyptian expatriates in Pakistan