Born: January 1959;

Citizen: Yemen;

Address: Ash Shihr District, Hadramawt Governorate, Yemen.

Activities:

Since at least 2009, al-Ahdal has provided a variety of financial, leadership, and other facilitation support to AQAP (Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula).

Al-Ahdal has been the president of the designated Rahmah Charitable Organization, since late 2010.

As of late 2013, al-Ahdal was a manager of foreign AQAP fighters and was responsible for spotting and recruiting young men on behalf of AQAP. At that time, he acquired and transferred money for AQAP’s foreign fighters under the cover of business transactions using Yemen-based Al-Omgy Exchange, which was co-owned by his father-in-law Said al-Omgy.

As of late 2014, al-Ahdal allowed AQAP to recruit at his mosque and provided support to the group. He also radicalized and provided religious instruction to a group of AQAP members who had escaped from prison.

In early 2016, al-Ahdal also helped shelter AQAP fighters seeking refuge from Gulf Coalition airstrikes, raised funds from Gulf businessmen under the cover of charitable organizations, served as an AQAP-affiliated Sharia judge, and led AQAP’s religious police.

As of mid-2016, al-Ahdal was a senior tribal leader in Yemen’s Hadramawt Governorate who provided AQAP financial assistance to conduct training and was a member of a cell based in Ash Shihr, Hadramawt that provided money laundering and financial facilitation services for AQAP.

Additionally, al-Ahdal engaged in weapons smuggling with AQAP financial facilitator Muhammad al-Omgy.