Abu Taha al-Sudan

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Abu Taha Al-Sudan (also Abu Talha al-Sudani or Tariq Abdullah) was a suspected member of Al Qaeda terrorist organization, reported[ by whom? ] 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[ citation needed ]. 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 allegedly killed an undetermined number (up to 70) of civilian nomadic tribesmen (denied by a US official), but not al-Sudan. [4] [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 taunting the United States, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan confirmed the death of Abu Talha al Sudani. [7]

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References

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  2. DeYoung, Karen (2007-01-08). "U.S. Strike in Somalia Targets Al-Qaeda Figure". Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-01-08.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-01-12. Retrieved 2007-07-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. The Independent, January 13, 2007, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2007-10-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. C. Bryson Hull, Somalia strike misses top Al Queda suspects -US, Reuters, 11 January 2007;https://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. "Shabaab reaches out to al Qaeda senior leaders, announces death al Sudani | FDD's Long War Journal". 2 September 2008.