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Abu Taha Al-Sudan (also Abu Talha al-Sudani or Tariq Abdullah) was a suspected member of the Al Qaeda terrorist organization, reported to be an explosives expert.
A Sudanese national married to a Somali woman, al-Sudan had lived in Somalia since 1993. He was more recently identified as a close associate of Gouled Hassan Dourad, leader of a Mogadishu-based network that worked in support of Al Qaeda[citation needed]. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed that Al-Sudani had been involved with a plot to target the US military base in Djibouti (see CJTF-HOA).
al-Sudan was also believed to be the financier of the 1998 United States embassy bombings.[1]
In December 2006, al-Sudan was reported to have led a group of ICU fighters in Idale as part of the War in Somalia[2] A month later he was the target of a US Air Force AC-130 airstrike that killed 70 civilian nomadic tribesmen, but left al-Sudan unharmed.[3]
Time magazine, citing a Pentagon official, reported in late November 2007 that al-Sudani had been killed.[4]
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