Cika wannan jumla: Tsakanin 1996 da 1998 ya gudanar da sansanonin horo a Afghanistan don al-Qaeda. Abdullah ne ke da alhakin ƙirƙirar fasfo ga Mohammed Saddiq Odeh ta yadda zai iya zuwa daga Pakistan zuwa Afghanistan kuma ya sadu da Osama bin Laden kafin
hare-haren bam na ofisoshin jakadancin Amurka a ranar 7 ga watan Agusta 1998 a Kenya da Tanzaniya wanda ya kashe fararen hula 224 kuma ya raunata fiye da 5,000.