Hamden Khalif Allah Awad alias Ahmed the German ( actually Egyptian ) ( August 13 , 1970 – August 7 , 1998 ) was one of the perpetrators of the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania . He detonated the bomb in Tanzania , killing himself and 11 other people . In the 1998 indictment he is identified only as Ahmed the German . His real identity emerged later , from telephone calls made during this al-Qaeda conspiracy
1998 United States embassy bombings
1998 United States embassy bombings
Hamden Khalif Allah Awad