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Wadih El Hage  

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  • Wadih el Hage (aka Abdus Sabbur; Abd al Sabbur; Wadia; Abu Abdullah al Lubnani; Norman; Wa'da Norman; the Manager; Tanzanite), a U.S. citizen, served for several years as Osama bin Laden's personal secretary and has been called a “front man” for the leader of al Qaeda. He was indicted for his part in the August 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa and is serving a life sentence for conspiracy to commit terrorism. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Hage, Wadih el (1960–)]

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