Mamdouh Mahmud Salim ( , '' Mamdūḥ Maḥmūd Sālim '' ; b. 1958 in Sudan ) is a Sudanese co-founder of the Islamist terrorist network al-Qaeda . He was arrested on 16 September 1998 near Munich . On 20 December 1998 he was extradited to the United States , where he was charged with participating in the 1998 United States embassy bombings . Since then he has been convicted of attempted murder , after stabbing one prison guard during an attempted escape . He was sentenced to 32 years for the crimes . In 2008 , however , a Federal Appeals judge ruled that the judge in the case was in error when he ruled that the stabbing was not part of a terrorism plot . He ordered resentencing . He was re-sentenced to life without parole in August 2010 . He is now an inmate of the ADX Florence facility in Florence , Colorado
1998 United States embassy bombings
1998 United States embassy bombings
Mamdouh Mahmud Salim