Hamden Khalif Allah Awad alias Ahmed the German (actually Egyptian) (August 13, 1970 – August 7, 1998)
at GlobalSecurity.org was one of the perpetrators of the

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and

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. He detonated the bomb in Tanzania, killing himself and 11 other people. In the 1998 indictmentCopy of indictment
USA v. Usama bin Laden et al., Center for Nonproliferation Studies,

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he is identified only as Ahmed the German. His real identity emerged later, from telephone calls made during this

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conspiracy.CNN story
on the trial of 4 accused, 2 May 2001

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