Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
Comorian-Kenyan member of al-Qaeda (died 2011)
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed (Arabic: فاضل عبدالله محمد; born Abdullah Muhammad Fazul Husseine Mullah Ati; Arabic: عبد االله محمد فاضل حسين ملا اتي; 25 August 1972 – 8 June 2011) also known as Fadil Harun, was a Comorian-Kenyan member of al-Qaeda, and the leader of its presence in East Africa. He is regarded as the organiser of the 1998 United States Embassy bombings.
Early life
Mohammed was born in the Magoudjou district of Moroni, Comoros, in 1972, although he regularly used alternate birthdates for the year 1974. He was involved in mainstream Sunni Islam teaching since an early age, reciting prayer instructions on Radio Comoro when he was 9 years old. At age 15, he accepted a scholarship in Sudan, where he adopted fundamentalist beliefs, under the guidance of Soidiki M'Bapandza, a preacher had left the Comoros following a short-lived political career of an unpopular Islamist party.
Besides his native Comorian and French, Mohammed learnt to speak Swahili, Arabic, and English.
In his teenage years, Mohammed studied medicine and physics in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Between 1991 and 1992, while in Afghanistan, he joined al-Qaeda and trained at mujahideen training camps, where he learnt to make explosives and to forge identity documents. In the mid-1990s, he became a religious teacher in Lamu, Kenya, where he married and received citizenship. He obtained a false identity card listing his birthplace as Lamu and his name as Haroon Fazul.
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