An Egyptian with a $5 million reward on his head, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah is supposedly a member of Al Qaeda鈥檚 top council. US intelligence thinks he is in Pakistan after fleeing Nairobi following the embassy bombings.
Along with Ayman al-Zawahiri and Said al-Adel, Mr. Abdullah is wanted by the US for the African embassy bombings in 1998 and is on the . He arranged and paid for the travel of the Al Qaeda operatives who carried out the attack, according to describing him as the group鈥檚 chief financial officer.