Ali Mohamed (double agent)

For other people with the same name, see Ali Mohamed (disambiguation).

Ali Abdul Saoud Mohamed (Arabic: علي عبد السعود محمد) (born June 3, 1952) is an Egyptian Islamist militant who was convicted of involvement in the al-Qaeda 1998 United States embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya, and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Mohamed was a major in the Egyptian Army's military intelligence, until being discharged for suspected fundamentalism in 1984. During this period he was a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ). According to FBI special agent Jack Cloonan, Mohamed trained Mujahideen militants en route to fight against Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and called him "bin Laden's first trainer". He then bacame an agent for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) but was quickly dropped by the agency after an undercover operation in West Germany. He worked as double agent for EIJ reporting on the workings of the CIA. He moved to the United States and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1986. He then returned to Afghanistan 1988 and used his U.S. military experience to train al-Qaeda and other Muslim militants.

He returned to the United States working as a translator for Ayman al-Zawahiri, Emir of the EIJ and future Emir of al-Qaeda, who toured California in 1993 following the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, hoping to raise money for EIJ. Mohamed was later charged in connection with the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. In October 2000, he pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiracy to kill nationals of the United States and to destroy U.S. property.

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