Mohammed Odeh
{{Short description|Member of al-Qaeda}}
{{Infobox War on Terror detainee
| name = Mohammed Saddiq Odeh
| image = DSS Photo of Odeh on Plane to United States.png
| image_size = 250px
| caption = Odeh being transported to United States from Kenya, 1998
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|3|1|df=yes}}http://americanjihadists.com/1998-08-31-FBI-FD302-Odeh-all.pdf {{Dead link|date=March 2022}}
| birth_place = Tabouk, Saudi Arabia
| arrest_date = 1998
| arrest_place = Karachi, Pakistan
| arresting_authority= Inter-Services Intelligence and FBI
| release_date =
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| citizenship = Jordanian and Kenyan
| current residence = Witu, Kenya
| detained_at = United States Penitentiary, Coleman I, Florida[https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ Inmate Locator], Federal Bureau of Prisons: Mohamed Siddiq Odeh #42375-054
| id_number = [http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=42375-054&x=91&y=17 42375-054]
| group = al-Qaeda
| alias = Khalid Salim
| charge = 1998 US embassy attacks
| penalty = life imprisonment (2001)
| status = in prison
| spouse = Nassem Nassor born August 15, 1969
| children = Yasser Boy
}}
Mohammed Saddiq Odeh (born 1 March 1965) is a Saudi-born al-Qaeda member, sentenced in October 2001 to life imprisonment for his parts in the US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, 1998. Odeh was convicted along with three co-conspirators: Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed and Wadih el Hage. Another defendant, Ali Mohamed, pleaded guilty the previous year. Another, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, was awaiting trial, and three additional defendants were fighting extradition in England.[https://archive.today/20120709120205/http://edition.cnn.com/2001/LAW/10/19/embassy.bombings/ Four embassy bombers get life], CNN.com, By Phil Hirschkorn, October 21, 2001
He is currently imprisoned in the United States Penitentiary in Coleman, Florida.
Activities
In March 1993, Saif al-Adel ordered Odeh to Somalia to train tribes in fighting.Bergen, Peter, "The Osama bin Laden I Know', 2006. He has been accused of training forces loyal to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid in 1993, while other sources have suggested he was training Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya members.Benjamin, Daniel & Steven Simon. "The Age of Sacred Terror", 2002Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Security Intelligence Report concerning Mohamed Harkat, February 22, 2008 The following year he was sent to Mombasa, Kenya with money from Mohammed Atef to purchase himself a 7-tonne trawler and start a fishing business.Simon Reeve, The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism, London: Deutsch Limited, 1999, p. 4
An engineer with both Kenyan and Jordanian citizenship, Odeh was arrested in Karachi, Pakistan after a flight from Nairobi to Karachi using a forged Yemeni passport, with a photograph that clearly did not match his face, supplied to him by Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah. Odeh was interrogated by Pakistan’s ISI agents because he listed his flight destination as "Afghanistan", and he confessed to his role in the bombings, claiming that seven men had plotted them together.
A week later he was returned to Nairobi, where he was taken into custody by the FBI. The FBI interrogated him from 15–27 August 1998, and FBI's Special Agent Daniel Coleman confirmed that he had accepted responsibility for the bombing.[https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000092602/woman-speaks-out-15-years-after-her-husband-s-mohammed-odeh-arrest Woman speaks out 15 years after her husband’s Mohammed Odeh arrest][https://cryptome.org/spy-goats.htm About FBI’s Special Agent Daniel Coleman]Katz, Samuel M. "Relentless Pursuit: The DSS and the manhunt for the al-Qaeda terrorists", 2002
References
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External links
- {{webarchive |url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20011110104742/http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/pdfs/binladen/indict.pdf |title=Copy of indictment USA v. Usama bin Laden et al., Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies |date=2001-11-10}}
- [https://edition.cnn.com/2001/LAW/10/19/embassy.bombings/ Four embassy bombers get life], CNN.com, By Phil Hirschkorn, October 21, 2001
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Category:1998 United States embassy bombings
Category:Inmates of ADX Florence
Category:Saudi Arabian people imprisoned in the United States
Category:Islamist mass murderers
Category:Jordanian al-Qaeda members
Category:Jordanian mass murderers
Category:Jordanian people of Palestinian descent
Category:Kenyan al-Qaeda members
Category:Kenyan people of Palestinian descent
Category:Palestinian al-Qaeda members
Category:People convicted on terrorism charges
Category:Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by the United States federal government