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Place of Birth: Egypt
About Saif al-Adel
- Saif al-Adel (Arabic: ??? ??????) (born 11 April 1960/63) is an Egyptian former military colonel, explosives expert, and a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda who is still at large.
- Adel is under indictment by the United States for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya. According to the indictment, Adel is a member of the majlis al shura of al-Qaeda and a member of its military committee.
- He has provided military and intelligence training to members of al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Sudan, and to anti-UN Somali tribes.
- It is possible that his trainees included the Somalis of the first Battle of Mogadishu.
- He established the al-Qaeda training facility at Ras Kamboni in Somalia near the Kenyan border.Adel was accused of being involved with Egyptian Islamic Jihad and attempting to overthrow the Egyptian government in 1987.
- After the charges were dismissed, he left the country in 1988 to join the mujahideen in repelling the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
- He is believed to have traveled to southern Lebanon along with Abu Talha al-Sudani, Sayful Islam al-Masri, Abu Ja`far al-Masri, and Abu Salim al-Masri, where he trained alongside Hezbollah Al-Hejaz.In Khartoum, Sudan, Adel taught recruited militants how to handle explosives.
- Along with Saeed al-Masri and Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, he is believed to have opposed the September 11 attacks two months prior to their execution.He is married to the daughter of Mustafa Hamid; they have five children.Since 2011, he has been connected with the kidnapping of the journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.It was originally believed that his real name is Mohammed Ibrahim Makkawi.
- However, on 29 February 2012, Egyptian authorities arrested a man by that name at Cairo International Airport and it was discovered that he was not Adel.
- Adel's real name is instead Mohammed Salah al-Din Zaidan.
- The FBI continues to list Makkawi and not Zaidan on its Most Wanted poster.
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