Abu Talha al-Sudani (also Abu Taha al-Sudan or Tariq Abdullah), born in Sudan, was a suspected member of Al Qaeda terrorist organization, an explosives expert and a close aide Osama bin Laden. He is believed to have traveled to

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along with Saif al-Adel,

Saif al-Islam al-Masri Saif al-Islam al-Masri ( ar, سيف الإسلام المصري) is the name of a certain member of al-Qaeda. The name is probably, but not certainly, a nom de guerre; ''Saif al-Islam'' means ''Sword of Islam'' and al-Masri means ''the Egyptian'' ...

, Abu Ja`far al-Masri and Abu Salim al-Masri, where he trained alongside Hezbollah. A Sudanese national married to a Somali woman, al-Sudani had lived in Somalia since 1993. He was more recently identified as a close associate of

Gouled Hassan Dourad Guled Hassan Duran ( so, Guuleed Xasan Duraan) is a citizen of Somalia who is held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantánamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba. Guled Hassan Duran arrived at Guantanamo on September 6, 2006, and has ...

, leader of a

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-based network that worked in support of Al Qaeda. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed that al-Sudani had been involved with a plot to target the U.S. military base in

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(see CJTF-HOA). Al-Sudani was also believed to be the financier of the 1998 United States embassy bombings. In December 2006, al-Sudani was reported to have led a group of ICU fighters in Idale as part of the

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. A month later he was the target of a U.S. Air Force

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airstrike that allegedly killed an undetermined number (up to 70) of civilian nomadic tribesmen (denied by a US official), but not al-Sudani. ''

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'', citing a Pentagon official, reported in late November 2007 that al-Sudani had been killed. On September 2, 2008, in a video taunting the United States,

Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan ) (4 April 1979, Mombasa, Kenya – 14 September 2009, near Baraawe, Somalia) was the leader of al-Qaeda in Somalia. He was listed on the FBI's third major "wanted" list, the FBI Seeking Information – War on Terrorism list, for his associati ...

confirmed the death of Abu Talha al-Sudani.

References

External links

Abu Talha al Sudani
Profile at GlobalSecurity.org

Crisis Group Assassinated al-Qaeda members Somalian al-Qaeda members Al-Sudani, Abu Talha Sudanese Islamists Year of birth missing 2007 deaths {{Somalia-bio-stub