Fazul Abdullah Muhammad

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Fazul Abdullah Muhammad (born August 25, 1972 or February 25 or December 25, 1974 in Moroni , Comoros ; † June 8, 2011 in Mogadishu , Somalia ), also Fazul Abdullah Mohammed transcribed, Arabic فاضل عبدالله محمد رحمه الله, DMG Fādil ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad raḥimahullâh , was an alleged al-Qaeda member and an alleged terrorist . He was considered the leader of the organization in the African area.

Life

Fazul Abdullah Muhammad is said to have studied medicine in Pakistan . He left university to join al-Qaeda. In Afghanistan he trained as a fighter and earned a reputation as a computer expert within the terrorist organization. Muhammad was fluent in five languages.

According to Kenyan and Somali sources, Fazul Abdullah Muhammad was allegedly killed on June 8, 2011 in an exchange of fire at a roadblock in Mogadishu. Muhammad had a South African passport, around $ 40,000, and several cell phones. After his death, DNA tests confirmed that he was actually the most wanted terrorist on the continent at that time.

Alias ​​names

Fazul Abdullah Muhammad is also known by the name Haroun Fazul and a number of aliases, often with multiple spellings, including: Abdallah Fazul, Abdalla Fazul, Abdallah Mohammed Fazul, Fazul Abdilahi Mohammed, Fazul Adballah, Fazul Abdalla, Fazul Mohammed, Haroon , Harun, Haroon Fazul, Harun Fazul, Fadil Abdallah Muhamad, Fadhil Haroun, Abu Seif Al Sudani, Abu Aisha, Abu Luqman, Fadel Abdallah Mohammed Ali and Fouad Mohammed. He had both Comorian and Kenyan citizenship and spoke French, Swahili , Arabic, English, and Comorian .

terrorism

Muhammad is held responsible for the terrorist attacks on the United States' embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi on August 7, 1998, in which a total of 224 people were killed and over 5,000 injured. He is also alleged to be involved in the attack on an Israeli- owned hotel in Kenya and the almost simultaneous launch of a rocket on an Israeli plane. Charges have been brought against him in New York South District Court and he has been wanted on an arrest warrant through Interpol . He has been on the FBI's list of the world's most wanted terrorists since October 10, 2001, and a $ 5 million bounty has been awarded for his capture .

The Attorney General of the United States John Ashcroft and FBI -Director Robert Mueller announced on 26 May 2004 that, according to FBI findings Fazul Abdullah Mohammed a group of seven people listened, planned the terrorist attacks in the United States in the summer or fall of 2004.

Based on intelligence , the United States apparently believed that Muhammad was in the Ras Kamboni region in southern Somalia, where he was covered by the Union of Islamic Courts . On January 8, 2007, the United States Air Force carried out an air strike using AC-130 fighter jets taking off from Djibouti . It is unconfirmed whether the attack was actually aimed at Fazul Abdullah Muhammad. The statement by the United States Department of Defense was vague, "The target of the strike was the head of al-Qaeda in the region".

Initially it was confirmed that Muhammad was killed in the bombing, but the American ambassador to Kenya, Michael Ranneberger , denied the killing on January 11, adding that the search for three high-ranking al-Qaeda members - besides Muhammad, the Sudanese Abu Talha al-Sudani and the Kenyan Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan - move on in Somalia.

The wives of Muhammad and Nabhan and three of their children were arrested at Kiunga while trying to cross the border into Kenya near Ras Kamboni in Somalia. They were taken to Nairobi for interrogation .

There are reports that at least 19 civilians were killed in the air strike, but the President of the Somali interim government, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, denied this. However, the information available is unclear and therefore there is no reliable information.

According to the Somali interim government, Fazul Abdullah Muhammad was killed in a gun battle on June 8, 2011 at a roadblock in southern Mogadishu. Presumably out of revenge, a suicide bomber killed the Somali interior minister Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan .

Web links

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  1. ↑ http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/somalia304.html ( Memento from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ East African al-Qaeda chief killed. NZZ Online, accessed on June 12, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Wanted: Fazul, Abdullah Mohammed . Interpol. Archived from the original on December 11, 2004. Retrieved September 6, 2011.
  4. ↑ CNN : "Transcript: Ashcroft, Mueller news conference" , May 26, 2004 (English)
  5. ↑ MSNBC : "US airstrike targets al-Qaida in Somalia" , accessed on January 11, 2007
  6. ^ The Daily Telegraph : "Somali Government closes in on al-Qa'eda stronghold" , January 8, 2007
  7. ↑ FAZ-Net : “More than 100 dead in Somalia?” , January 11, 2007
  8. ↑ BBC News : Somali raids miss terror suspects, Jan. 11, 2007
  9. ↑ Reuters via Alertnet.org: "Kenya detains wives of Somalia al Qaeda suspects" , January 11, 2007
  10. ^ The Guardian : "Somalia air strike failed to kill al-Qaida targets, says US" January 11, 2007
  11. ↑ Thomas Scheen: Leader of Al-Qaida killed in East Africa. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 13, 2011, accessed June 14, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Muhammad, Fazul Abdullah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES فاضل عبدالله محمد (Arabic); Muḥammad, Fādil ʿAbdullāh (DMG); Mohammed, Fazul Abdullah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Comoros Kenyan al-Qaeda member
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1972 or February 25, 1974 or December 25, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Moroni , Comoros
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2011
Place of death Mogadishu , Somalia