Wadih el-Hage (Arabic: وديع الحاج, Wadīḥ al-Ḥāja) alias Abd'al Sabur (عبد الصبور, ‘Abd aṣ-Ṣabūr) alias the Manager is a former al-Qaeda member who is serving life imprisonment in the United States for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. He was indicted and arrested in 1998, and convicted on all counts and sentenced to life without parole in 2001. He and some of his codefendants are currently in the supermax prison known as ADX F...
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Wadih el-Hage (Arabic: وديع الحاج, Wadīḥ al-Ḥāja) alias Abd'al Sabur (عبد الصبور, ‘Abd aṣ-Ṣabūr) alias the Manager is a former al-Qaeda member who is serving life imprisonment in the United States for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. He was indicted and arrested in 1998, and convicted on all counts and sentenced to life without parole in 2001. He and some of his codefendants are currently in the supermax prison known as ADX Florence.
Most of the following information comes from a PBS story about El-Hage.
El-Hage was born to a Maronite Christian family in Sidon, Lebanon on 25 July 1960 but grew up in Muslim Kuwait, where he converted to Islam. From 1978 he studied urban planning at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. El-Hage interrupted his schooling to travel to Afghanistan via Pakistan to participate in the fighting against the USSR. He was reportedly under Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, an important figure in the early history of al-Qaeda. El-Hage returned to his...
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