Ali Mohamed
Ali Mohammed (Arabic علي محمد ) (born 1954 in Egypt ), sometimes also spelled Mohamed Ali, is an American al - Qaeda member Egyptian origin. He was arrested on August 7, 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in connection with the attacks.
Ali Mohammed speaks several languages and has two degrees. He was an officer in the Egyptian army, where he served for over 10 years. He claims to be on contacts with the Al- Jihad about Ayman al -Zawahiri. It was founded in 1984, discharged from the army because of strikingly large religiosity and because of membership in the unit, which presented the assassins of Sadat. He succeeded in consequence, to serve as a spy for the CIA and to act as a kind of double agent.
The course of the following years is controversial, according to CIA data he took on unauthorized contacts with Hezbollah, flew fast and the service tried his entry into the U.S. to prevent. According to other data (such as Peter Bergen ), he managed to continually deceive the Americans.
In turn, is ensured that he einreiste in the U.S. in September 1985. He worked in the 1980s for the U.S. Army and as a teacher of Arabic culture at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center in Fort Bragg / North Carolina. In 1989 he married an American and became a U.S. citizen, but left the army honorably.
He lived since then in Santa Clara, California. The Egyptian Khaled Abu el- Dahab, who lived 1987 to 1998 in the U.S. and whose apartment was an important control center for terrorists, was recruited by him. Several terrorists were trained by him in dealing with weapons, Zawahiri was supported in a journey through the United States. He spied 1993 and 1994, U.S. embassies in Africa, founded in there an al - Qaeda cell and formed a bodyguard of Osama bin Laden.
To distract from his own activities, he served as an informant to the FBI over illegal immigrants to.
In 1995 his name on the World Trade Center in New York appeared in the U.S. media in connection with the first stop of 26 February 1993, claiming the left newspaper The Boston Globe that he had been smuggled into the country with a secret program by the CIA.
Mohammed was arrested after the attacks in Africa in 1998, pleaded guilty and is being held captive in a secret location.