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Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani

Dar Es Salaam embassy bombing cell Operative

Details
	Importance	Medium
	Location of Detention	U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba5
	Capturing Authority	Pakistani police4
	Date of Capture	July 25, 20044
	Location of Capture	Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan4
	Affiliation	Dar Es Salaam embassy bombing cell
	Role	Operative
	Supervisor	Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam5
	Affiliation	East Africa Embassy Bombers
	Affiliation	Al-Qaeda
	Nationality	Tanzanian1
	Alias(es)	Abubakar K. Ahmed2, Abubakary K. Ahmed2, Abu Bakr Ahmed2, Abu Khabar2, Abubakary Khalfan Ahmed Ghailani2, Mahafudh Abubakar Ahmed Abdallah Hussein2, Ahmed the Tanzanian2, Ahmad Al Tanzani2, Shariff Omar Mohammed2, Foopie2
	Alternate Spelling(s)	Ahmad Khalafan Ghilani, Ahmed Khalfan Ahmed, Ahmed Khalfan, Ahmed Khalfan Ali, Ahmed Ghailani
	Date of Birth	March 14, 19742,3
	Alternate Date of Birth	April 13, 19742,3
	Place of Birth	Zanzibar, Tanzania.1
	Height	5'4'2
	Weight	150 lbs2
	Gender	Male
	Description	Hair: Black. Eyes: Brown.1,2
	History	Attended training camp in postwar Afghanistan (1990-2001)5
	Charging authority	United States
	In connection with	East African Embassy Bombings
	Charges issued	Dec. 16, 1998
Narrative and Notes
	Reliable	Ghaliani, on orders from Msalam, purchased various components used in the Dar Es Salaam bombing. He fled Africa for Afghanistan the day before the bombings and became a line soldier, and later a cook, for al-Qaeda. He later served in al-Qaeda's document forgery office in Kandahar, Afghanistan, until the fall of the Taliban. He then moved to Pakistan. He worked for Hamza Rabia during this time. He was one of 14 key al-Qaeda operatives transferred from CIA custody to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2006. Speaks Swahili. The U.S. State Department offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture.2,5
Sources
1 FBI Executive Summary, Status of embassy bombings investigation, Nov. 18, 1998. Posted online by PBS' 'Frontline' program.
2 FBI 'Most Wanted Terrorist' online poster.
3 Also used April 14, 1974 and Aug. 1, 1970, according to FBI.
4 Khan, Kamran. 'Pakistan Holds Top al-Qaeda Suspect.' Washington Post: July 30, 2004.
5 'Detainee Biographies,' press release, Director of National Intelligence, Sept. 6, 2006.
Photos (left to right): FBI, FBI, FBI
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