Abu Taha al-Sudan

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

A Sudanese national married to a Somali woman, al-Sudan has 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 US military base in Djibouti (see CJTF-HOA).

al-Sudan was also believed to be the financier of the 1998 United States embassy bombings.[1]

In December 2006, al-Sudan was reported to have led a group of ICU fighters in Idale as part of the War in Somalia[2] A month later he was the target of a US Air Force AC-130 airstrike that killed 70 civilian nomadic tribesmen, but left al-Sudan unharmed.[3]

Time magazine, citing a Pentagon official, reported in late November 2007 that al-Sudani had been killed.[4]

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  1. ^ "U.S. Strike in Somalia Targets Al-Qaeda Figure", Washington Post, 2007-01-08. Retrieved on 2007-01-08. 
  2. ^ http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-12-21-voa25.cfm
  3. ^ The Independent, January 13, 2007, http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2149716.ece
  4. ^ TIME, November 29, 2007, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1689207-2,00.html
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