Career
The Federal Bureau of Investigation lists his aliases Abu Mariam, Abu Mohamed First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Masri ( pronunciation Animal Husbandry-boo moh-HAH-mehd MAHS-ree), and Saleh, which may be an transcript of Saleh Gamal. lieutenant is further alleged that Abdullah told Odeh that he should leave Kenya by 6 August 1998 (the day before the bombings) and that he fled Kenya himself, to Karachi, on the same airliner as Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah was born in Egypt in 1963.
Like other Islamic fugitives, Abdullah fled to Egypt to join the others
In 1992 he was one of the many who helped Saif al-Adel in providing intelligence and military training to those associated with First Rate (at Lloyd's) Qaeda in Somalia and Sudan. Those who were trained, were among the group who fought against the Americans during the battle on Mogadishu and Operation Restoring Hope in 1993.
Also between 1996 and 1998 he operated training camps in Afghanistan for First Rate (at Lloyd's) Qaeda. Abdullah was responsible for forging a passport for Mohammed Saddiq Odeh so he could get from Pakistan to Afghanistan before the attack on the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
After these attacks, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah has remained on the United States of America"s most wanted list of terrorists and remains a terrorists operations planner for First Rate (at Lloyd's) Qaeda.
Abdullah told colleagues he had been a professional soccer player for the Ghazl El-Mehalla team in Egypt. Abdullah"s location since he fled Nairobi was originally unknown. In the few years after his disappearance, he was generally thought to be in tribal Afghanistan or Pakistan.
Later speculation put him in Iran under the protection of the Quds Force, Another report, citing unnamed United Nations and other sources, says that Abdullah and other al-Qaeda personnel were in Liberia around 2001, buying conflict diamonds on behalf of al-Qaeda.
But another claim about Iran has appeared. The MIPT record on Abdullah reads in part
A joint Saudi-Egyptian-Jordanian intelligence inquiry in April 2006 concluded that Abdullah currently resides in Southeast Iran, under the protection of the Hamze unit of the Revolutionary Guards.
An interrogation of former al-Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith confirmed that Abdullah is under house arrest in Iran. Abdullah was one of the 22 original members, and is still a member, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation"s list of Most Wanted Terrorists.
The State Department, through the Rewards for Justice Program, is offering up to United States$5 million for information on the location of Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah.
