Safaa Mohammed Ali

Safaa Mohammed Ali (1982-November 9, 2005) is an Iraqi militant who carried out the 2005 Amman bombings.[1] He has been also referred to as one of the Al-Qaeda members who planned the 9/11 bombing on The Pentagon and the Twin Towers. He is also associated with a planned attack on the White House.

For other people named Mohammad Ali, see Mohammad Ali (disambiguation).
Safaa Mohammed Ali
Born1982
DiedNovember 9, 2005(2005-11-09) (aged 22–23)

He was captured in November 2004 by U.S. forces during the battle of Fallujah and he was released two weeks later because his captors failed to identify him as a combatant.[2] Nearly a year later he detonated a suicide vest and murder 57 people in a wedding party in Amman, Jordan.[3]

References
  1. Jackie Spinner (2005-11-15). "Motive Glimpsed in Jordan Attack". The Washington Post. The Washington Post Company. pp. A18. Retrieved 2007-11-01. Jordanian officials have identified the two other bombers as Rawad Jassem Mohammed Abed and Safaa Mohammed Ali, both 23.
  2. Cordesman, Anthony H.; Davies, Emma R. (2007). Iraq's Insurgency and the Road to Civil Conflict. 1. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 159. ISBN 9780313349973.
  3. O'Donnell, Patrick K. (30 October 2007). We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah. Hachette UK. p. 162. ISBN 9780306815935.


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