Khalfan Khamis Mohamed (Arabic: خلفان النعيمي; born 5 March 1974), a Tanzanian national, is one of numerous al-Qaeda suspects who were indicted in 1998,[1] and one of the four who were convicted and sentenced to life without parole in 2001,[2] for their parts in the 1998 United States embassy bombings.

[3] After interrogation, South African immigration authorities handed him over to FBI agents and he was flown to New York on the following day.

On November 2, 2000, Mohamed and Mamdouh Mahmud Salim (also of al-Qaeda) attacked a federal prison guard in a failed escape attempt.

The officer was critically injured, having been stabbed in the eye with a sharpened comb, and suffered severe brain damage from the attack.

[6] During the sentencing phase of his trial, prosecutors argued unsuccessfully for capital punishment of Mohamed, due to the continuing threat he posed to prison guards.