Terrorist on FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List — DEAD —
Posted in: Homeland Security,War on Terror
Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, the terrorist that was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List, was killed in Pakistan last April the government revealed today. The terrorist was wanted in connection with the bombings of 3 US Embassies in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, and Tanzania that killed 224 people.
Pakistani officials had said that Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah was killed in North Waziristan during an airstrike by Pakistani forces near the border with Afghanistan.
DNA testing confirmed the Pakistani government’s claim, U.S. officials said, and Atwah’s name was removed from the FBI’s list of Most Wanted Terrorists.
Atwah, 42, was born in Egypt. He was indicted in connection with al Qaeda’s suicide bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
There was a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture.
Atwah, who also went by the alias Abdel Rahman al-Muhajer, had been a member of al Qaeda since at least 1990 and provided explosives training in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan, according to his indictment. via CNN.com.
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