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The FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists" is a list of fugitives who have been indicted by sitting Federal Grand Juries in the United States district courts, for alleged crimes of terrorism. The list formed in late 2001 in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. It originated in concept from the extant FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. It now serves as a companion to that earlier list, which in years past, had listed several major terrorist fugitives.

Since 1984, the United States government has also used the Rewards for Justice Program, which pays monetary rewards of up to $5 million, or now, in some cases more, upon special authorization by the United States Secretary of State, to individuals who provide information which substantially leads to countering of terrorist attacks against United States persons. Through 2001, $62 million had been paid to over 40 people through this program.

The Rewards for Justice Program was established by the 1984 Act to Combat International Terrorism, Public Law 98-533, and is administered by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, within the U.S. Department of State.

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List of initial 22 wanted terrorist fugitives

In response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, President Bush released to the public this initial list on October 10, 2001 of the FBI's top 22 Most Wanted Terrorists. The 22 terrorists chosen by the FBI to be profiled on the list had all been earlier indicted for acts of terrorism between the years 1985 and 1998. All 22 remained fugitives from justice as of October 2001. Of the 22 fugitives, only Osama bin Laden was by then already listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

On the fugitive group wanted poster, The FBI did not list the terrorist fugitives in any particular stated order, except perhaps for the consistent placing of bin Laden in the number one position of the top row. However, the 22 fugitives can easily fit into distinct categories of terrorist attacks over the two decades, based on each fugitive's indictment history. For organization and ease of reference here, the relevant major terrorist attacks are listed by date below, with a brief summary for each, identifying the terror cells most directly responsible for the attack. The 22 fugitives on the list are then grouped beneath the attack for which each terrorist was first indicted:

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June 14, 1985

TWA Flight 847 skyjacking over Greece

by Hezbollah

Indicted 1985 TWA 847 fugitives (total listed: 3)

Imad Mugniyah

Imad Mugniyah
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: At large

Hassan Izz-Al-Din

Hassan Izz-Al-Din
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: At large

Ali Atwa

Ali Atwa
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: At large

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February 26, 1993

World Trade Center bombing in Manhattan

(and foiled New York City landmark bomb plot)

by coalition of 5 linked NYC area groups: [official prepared statement of Steven Emerson before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information, on February 24, 1998], Federal Information Systems Corporation, Federal News Service, as downloaded from the Library of Congress, 1998, Made available 4/5/98

(Egyptians in Brooklyn)-- Jamaat Al-Fuqra';	plus Gamaat Islamiya (Al-Farooq Mosque,Nosair)
plus (Palestinians in Jersey City)--Hamas (Saleh, in Yonkers) with Pakistani-Kuwaiti operative Yousef with Iraqi-American born Yasin brothers in Jersey City	plus Islamic Jihad (Odeh)
plus the Sudanese Mission members' National Islamic Front	et. al.

Indicted 1993 Manhattan WTC fugitives (total listed: 1)

Abdul Rahman Yasin

Abdul Rahman Yasin
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: At large
special note: was allegedly a prisoner of Saddam Hussein in 2002, but has since gone missing from Iraq

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en route to Tokyo (as a test run attack),

December 11, 1994

Bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434

and January 6-7, 1995

foiled Operation Bojinka in Manila, Philippines

by coalition of Pakistani and southeast Asian nascent al Qaeda:

Ramzi Yousef (see 1993 WTC)	with Abu Sayyaf Group (ibid., in Philippines)
plus Jemaah Islamiyah-Konsojaya 's Hambali (in Indonesia & Malaysia)	et. al.

Indicted 1995 Bojinka fugitives (total listed: 1)

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: captured in Pakistan on March 1, 2003; no longer listed as of February 23, 2006

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June 25, 1996

Khobar Towers bombing in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

by Hizballah Al-Hijaz (Saudi)	with Iranian support

Indicted 1996 Khobar fugitives (total listed: 4)

Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Mughassil

Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Mughassil
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: At large

Ali Saed Bin Ali El-Hoorie

Ali Saed Bin Ali El-Hoorie
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: At large

Ibrahim Salih Mohammed Al-Yacoub

Ibrahim Salih Mohammed Al-Yacoub
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: At large

Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser

Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: At large

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and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

August 7, 1998

1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya

by al-Qaeda

Indicted 1998 embassy fugitives (total listed: 13)

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: At large

Muhammad Atef

Muhammad Atef
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: Killed in Afghanistan on November 14, 2001 by a Predator missile attack on his home outside of Kabul; no longer listed as of February 23, 2006

Ayman Al-Zawahiri

Ayman Al-Zawahiri
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: At large

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: At large

Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil

Mustafa Mohamed Fadhil
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: Captured in Pakistan?; unconfirmed, but no longer listed as of February 23, 2006

Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam

Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: At large

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: Captured in Pakistan on July 25, 2004; no longer listed as of February 23, 2006

Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan

Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: There were reports he was arrested in Pakistan in 2002, but it may have been a man with a similar name. Still listed as of May 31, 2006

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: At large

Anas Al-Liby

Anas Al-Liby
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: At large

Saif Al-Adel

Saif Al-Adel
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: - Arrested in Iran?

Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali

Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: At large

Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah

Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah
Listed date: October 10, 2001
Status: Killed in Pakistan on April 12, 2006; unconfirmed, still listed as of May 28, 2006

Additions to the list

Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list

Whereas the Most Wanted Terrorists list is reserved for terrorist fugitives who have been indicted by federal grand juries, the FBI recognized a further need to achieve a much quicker response time in order to prevent any future attacks which may be in the current planning stages. To enlist the public's help in this effort, the FBI sought a way to deliver the early known suspected terror attack information, often very limited, out to the public as quickly as possible. So, on January 17, 2002, the third major FBI wanted list was first released, which has now become known as the FBI Seeking Information – War on Terrorism list.

As the name of this list implies, the FBI's intent is to acquire any critical information from the public, as soon as possible, about the suspected terrorists, who may be in the planning stages of terror attacks against United States nationals at home and abroad. The first such list profiled five terrorists about whom little was known, but who were suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in martyrdom operations. The main evidence against the five was five videos they had produced, as found in the rubble of Muhammad Atef's destroyed home outside Kabul, Afghanistan.

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By 2006, more than four years had passed since the FBI had listed the original 22 terrorist fugitives on the Most Wanted Terrorist list. Of those 22, by then four had been qualified for removal from the list, due to death or capture. Also by then, some new high profile terrorists had qualified to be listed as Most Wanted Terrorists under FBI guidelines. Some of these new fugitives were wanted for indictments in attacks and plots that had taken place since the original list had been compiled. The original indictments had been for incidents only through 1998. But since then, the U.S. had become victim to at least two major terror attacks, which would generate some of the new indictments for the Most Wanted Terrorists, notably:

• the 2000 USS Cole bombing, which killed 17 American sailors and wounded 40 on October 12, 2000 off the port coast of Aden, Yemen
• the September 11, 2001 attacks in Manhattan, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania

In addition, after the original 2001 list had been compiled and released to the public, the U.S. had foiled and issued indictments for numerous other plots, involving some new listed Most Wanted Terrorists. Those notable other plots involved: [Recent Escapees From Yemen Prison Added to Most Wanted Terrorists and Seeking Information - War on Terrorism Lists], FBI national Press Release, February 23, 2006

• the Buffalo, New York cell Buffalo Six, or Lackawanna Cell, exposed September 2002
• Palestinian Islamic Jihad, on RICO charges for plots based from Syria since 1995
• Abu Sayyaf Group kidnappings and murders of foreign nationals in the Philippines

So in February 2006, the FBI completed two groups of additions to the Most Wanted Terrorists list, the first such additions in over four years. Fugitives who were added to the list are grouped below by the date on which each terrorist was first listed, with a brief note of the attack or plot for which they were indicted:

Additions February 23, 2006 (total listed: 2)

Jamel Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Badawi

Jamal al-Bedawi
Listed date: February 23, 2006
Indicted for: 2000 Cole bombing
Status: at large

Jaber A. Elbaneh

Jaber A. Elbaneh
Listed date: February 23, 2006
Indicted for: Buffalo Six material support to al-Qaeda
Status: at large

Additions February 24, 2006 (total listed: 6)

The very next day, on February 24, 2006, the FBI added an additional six fugitive terrorists to the list, for various plots and attacks. One of the entries was for an indictment dating all the way back to the June 14, 1985, hijacking of TWA flight 847 by Hezbollah (see above). In addition, the FBI also added to the Seeking Information – War on Terrorism list an additional three persons - most notably, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the notorious leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. [FBI Updates Most Wanted Terrorists and Seeking Information – War on Terrorism Lists], FBI national Press Release, February 24, 2006 This marked the first time that al-Zarqawi had appeared on any of the three major FBI wanted lists. On June 08, 2006, ABCNEWS reported that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was confirmed to have been killed in Baghdad in a bombing raid by a United States task force. His death was confirmed by mutiple sources in Iraq, including the United States government. Al-Zarqawi has often been confused with Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is one of the original FBI Most Wanted Terrorists on the list since 2001.

The six fugitives added to the Most Wanted Terrorists list were:

Mohammed Ali Hamadei

Mohammed Ali Hammadi
Listed date: February 24, 2006
Indicted for: 1985 TWA Flight 847 skyjacking and murder
Status: at large

Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah

Sheikh Abdullah Ramadan Shallah
Listed date: February 24, 2006
Indicted for: RICO activity of Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Status: at large

Abd Al Aziz Awda

Abd Al Aziz Awda
Listed date: February 24, 2006
Indicted for: RICO activity of Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Status: at large

Khadafi Abubakar Janjalani

Khadaffy Janjalani
Listed date: February 24, 2006
Indicted for: Abu Sayyaf kidnaps & murders in the Philippines
Status: at large

Isnilon Totoni Hapilon

Isnilon Totoni Hapilon
Listed date: February 24, 2006
Indicted for: Abu Sayyaf kidnaps & murders in the Philippines
Status: at large

Jainal Antel Sali, Jr.

Jainal Antel Sali, Jr.
Listed date: February 24, 2006
Indicted for: Abu Sayyaf kidnaps & murders in the Philippines
Status: at large

See also

• Terrorism
• Terrorist incidents
• War on Terrorism
• Weapons of mass destruction

Captured al-Qaeda Terrorists

• Abu Faraj al-Libbi Captured in Pakistan
• Abu Zubaydah Captured in Pakistan
• Abdur Rahman Captured in
• Mustafa Setmariam Nasar Captured in Pakistan
• Abu Musab al-Suri Captured in Pakistan

References

External links

• [Rewards for Justice]
• [FBI Most Wanted Terrorists currently listed page]

 

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