Abu Taha al-Sudan

Abu Taha Al-Sudan (also Abu Talha al-Sudani or Tariq Abdullah) was a suspected member of Al Qaeda terrorist organization, reported to be an explosives expert.

He is believed to have traveled to Southern Lebanon along with Saif al-Adel, Sayful Islam al-Masri, Abu Ja`far al-Masri and Abu Salim al-Masri, where he trained alongside Hezbollah.[1]

A Sudanese national married to a Somali woman, al-Sudan had lived in Somalia since 1993. He was more recently identified as a close associate of Gouled Hassan Dourad, leader of a Mogadishu-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 Djibouti (see CJTF-HOA).

Al-Sudan was also believed to be the financier of the 1998 United States embassy bombings.[2]

In December 2006, al-Sudan was reported to have led a group of ICU fighters in Idale as part of the War in Somalia.[3] A month later he was the target of a U.S. Air Force AC-130 airstrike that killed 70 civilian nomadic tribesmen, but left al-Sudan unharmed.[4] This number of civilian casualties has been denied, however, by other sources.[5]

Time, citing a Pentagon official, reported in late November 2007 that al-Sudani had been killed.[6] On September 2, 2008, in a video while taunting the United States, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan declared the death of co-conspirator Abu Talha al Sudani.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Hegghammer, Thomas (February 2008). "Deconstructing the Myth about Al- Qaida and Khobar" (PDF). CTC Sentinel (Combating Terrorism Center at West Point) 1 (3): 20–25.
  2. ↑ DeYoung, Karen (2007-01-08). "U.S. Strike in Somalia Targets Al-Qaeda Figure". Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-01-08.
  3. ↑ http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-12-21-voa25.cfm
  4. ↑ The Independent, January 13, 2007, http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2149716.ece
  5. ↑ C. Bryson Hull, Somalia strike misses top Al Queda suspects -US, Reuters, 11 January 2007;http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/01/11/us-somalia-conflict-idUSHUN14121320070111
  6. ↑ Time, November 29, 2007, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1689207-2,00.html
  7. ↑ http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/09/shabab_reaches_out_t.php

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