al-Qaeda operative Seif al-Adel: profile Concrete information about Al-Adel, an assumed name which translates as "sword of justice," is scarce. He appears on the FBI's most wanted terrorist list, wanted in the US for "conspiracy to kill United States nationals, to murder, to destroy buildings and property of the United States, and to destroy the National Defense utilities of the United States." He is widely believed to have been behind the 7 August 1998 bombings of US embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, which killed hundreds and is suspected of having set up training camps for the organisation in Sudan, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 1990s. There is a $5m reward for information leading to his location. His exact age is not known but he is thought to be aged around 50. The FBI website gives him a date of birth of 11 April, 1960 or 1963. Both his weight and height are unknown, and there is no information about any distinguishing marks or scars. The only known photo of Al-Adel, used above, is black-and-white, his age and whether it still resembles him is unknown. It has been reported that Al-Adel, also known as Muhamad Ibrahim Makkawi and Ibrahim Madani, was a former Egyptian army officer, who left the military to join the Egyptian Islamic Jihad group, led by al-Zawahiri, which is suspected of being responsible for the assassination of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. Saif Al-Adel reportedly left Egypt in the late 1980s to join the Arab mujahideen in confronting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.