Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam (19 February 1976-1 January 2009), also known as Usama al-Kini, was a Kenyan member of Al-Qaeda who loaded a truck that bombed the US embassy in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania in 1998.
Biography[]
Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam was born in Mombasa, Kenya, and was formerly a clothing vendor and the centre midfielder for the Black Panthers local soccer team. In 1998, he joined the Al-Qaeda terrorist network's cell in Africa and bought the SUV used in the Tanzania embassy bombing and bought and loaded the Kenya embassy bombing truck, both occurring that year. With 213 counts against him, he was wanted dead by the United States. Later, Msalam became the chief of Al-Qaeda's operations in Pakistan, and at that time the FBI set a $5,000,000 bounty on his head. He was held responsible for the 20 September 2008 Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing which killed 54 people and wounded 266.
On 1 January 2009, the CIA tracked Msalam and Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan to the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) tribal belt of northwestern Pakistan, and a UAV fired an AGM-114 Hellfire missile at the two of them, killing them.