Saif Al-Adel

Saif al-Adel (Arabic: سيف العدل‎) is an Egyptian explosives expert and a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda.

Adel is under indictment for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Africa. According to the indictment, Adel is a member of the majlis al shura of al-Qaeda and a member of its military committee, and he provided military and intelligence training to members of al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Sudan, and to anti-UN Somali tribes. It is possible that his trainees included the Somalis of the first Battle of Mogadishu. He established the al-Qaeda training facility at Ras Kamboni in Somalia near the Kenyan border.

He was one of the masterminds of the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat, and left the country in 1988 to join the mujahideen in repelling the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He is then believed to have traveled to southern Lebanon along with Abu Talha al-Sudani, Sayful Islam al-Masri, Abu Ja`far al-Masri, and Abu Salim al-Masri, where he trained alongside Hezbollah Al-Hejaz.

In Khartoum, Adel taught recruited militants how to handle explosives in the unused sections of Al-Damazin Farms.

He is married to the daughter of Mustafa Hamid, and they have five children together.

Along with Saeed al-Masri and Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, he is believed to have opposed the September 11 attacks two months prior to their execution.

He has also been connected with the murder of Daniel Pearl.

On February 29, 2012, Egyptian authorities arrested a man believed to be Adel named Mohammed Ibrahim Makkawi at Cairo International Airport but it was later revealed that he was not Adel.