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Khalfan Khamis Mohamed

Al-Qaeda Terrorist Operations Facilitator

	Importance	Low
	Location of Detention	Florence, Colorado, United States2
	Capturing Authority	South African police3
	Date of Capture	Oct. 5, 19993
	Location of Capture	Cape Town, South Africa3
	Affiliation	Al-Qaeda
	Role	Terrorist Operations Facilitator
	Supervisor	Mustafa Mohammed Fadhil4
	Affiliation	Dar Es Salaam embassy bombing cell
	Affiliation	East Africa Embassy Bombers
	Nationality	Tanzanian1
	Alias(es)	Elfani Hamis Ahmed1, Zahran Nassor Maulid4
	Alternate Transliteration	K. K. Mohamed
	Date of Birth	19735
	Alternate Date of Birth	March 5, 19741
	Place of Birth	Pemba, Tanzania5,6
	Height	5'4'1
	Weight	180 lbs1
	Gender	Male
	Description	Hair: Dark, curly. Eyes: Dark. Sometimes wears a beard.1
	History	Attended training camp in postwar Afghanistan (1990-2001)4
	Charged with	Murder, conspiracy1
	Charging authority	United States
	In connection with	East African Embassy Bombings
	Charges issued	Dec. 16, 1998
	Case status	Convicted
	Convictions	All charges
	Sentence	Life imprisonment1,2
	Case resolved	May 29, 2001
	Narrative and Notes (Reliable)	Has a twin sister. Moved with family to Dar es Salaam around 1990. Trained in explosives in Afghanistan in 1994. Returned home to Dar Es Salaam in 1995. Traveled to Mombasa, Kenya and twice to Somalia in 1997. Traveled to Mombasa again in 1998. Joined embassy bombings plot in March or April 1998. Rented house in Dar Es Salaam used as base of operations for embassy bombings. Helped grind the TNT and prepare the bomb used in Tanzania bombing. Purchsed a white Suzuki Samurai used by conspirators. Drove the truck partway to Dar Es Salaam embassy. He fled to South Africa and worked as a cook at a fast-food restaurant, Burger World, under an assumed name, until South African police detained him. He was turned over to the United States. Tried to reach al-Qaeda in June 1999 but didn't not hear back. After he was captured, he assisted Mamdouh Salim in a jail uprising in New York in 2000. During trial, his attorney portrayed him as a simple gofer and a pawn. After his conviction, a South African court ruled his extradition to the United States was illegal on the grounds he faced the death penalty.1,3,4,5
Sources and Notes
1 Rewards for Justice web page on Mohamed.
2 U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons web site.
3 Hirschkorn, Phil. 'South Africa's court says convicted bomber's rights violated.' CNN: May 29, 2001.
4 United States vs. Osama bin Laden et al, indictment, Nov. 4, 1998, and updates.
5 United States vs. Osama bin Laden et al, trial transcript, Day 1, Feb. 5, 2001.
6 FBI had place of birth as Zanzibar, Tanzania; his attorney said it was Pemba.
Photo credits (left to right)
(1) Rewards for Justice
(2) FBI
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