How to Pronounce Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan
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Jan 01, 0001 Mombasa, Mombasa County, Kenya Died on 01 Jan 2009 (aged 2008)
Kenyan al-Qaeda member
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About Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan
- Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan (April 9, 1960/69 – January 1, 2009) was a fugitive wanted in the United States as a participant in the 1998 U.S.
- embassy bombings.
- He was alleged to have purchased the Toyota and Nissan trucks used in the attacks, flying out of Nairobi to Karachi, Pakistan five days before the assault was launched.
- Swedan was on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list since its inception in October 2001.
- He was born in Mombasa, Kenya. The UN 1267 Committee referred to him as Ahmed Salim Swedan Sheikh.
- He was also known as Sheikh Ahmad Salem Suweidan, Sheikh Ahmed Salem Swedan, Sheikh Swedan, Sheikh Bahamadi, Ahmed Ally, Bahamad, Sheik Bahamad, Ahmed the Tall and Abu Yahya al-Kini.Swedan had, in the past, managed a trucking business in Kenya. Swedan purchased a beige Toyota Dyna truck in Nairobi, and a 1987 Nissan Atlas refrigeration truck in Dar es-Salaam.
- Six metal bars were used to form a "cage" on the back of the Atlas, to accommodate the bomb.
