FBI Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list
Encyclopedia
United States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice , is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated...
's Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...
to be used as a primary tool for publicly identifying and tracking down suspected terrorists operating against United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
nationals at home and abroad. The first preceding list for this purpose was the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list arose from a conversation held in late 1949 between J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, and William Kinsey Hutchinson, International News Service Editor-in-Chief, who were discussing ways to promote capture of the...
list. In 2001, after 9/11, that list was supplanted by the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
The Federal Bureau of Investigation'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 initial list was formed in late 2001 in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks...
list, for the purpose of listing fugitive
Fugitive
A fugitive is a person who is fleeing from custody, whether it be from private slavery, a government arrest, government or non-government questioning, vigilante violence, or outraged private individuals...
s who are specifically wanted for acts of terrorism
Terrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...
.
Since inception in January 2002, the Seeking Information list also serves this purpose, but with the big difference from the two earlier lists being that the suspected terrorists on this third list need not be fugitives indicted by grand juries
Grand jury
A grand jury is a type of jury that determines whether a criminal indictment will issue. Currently, only the United States retains grand juries, although some other common law jurisdictions formerly employed them, and most other jurisdictions employ some other type of preliminary hearing...
in the United States District Court
United States district court
The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in the district court, which is a court of law, equity, and admiralty. There is a United States bankruptcy court associated with each United States...
s. Such lower level guidelines now allow for a much quicker response time by the FBI to deliver the early known information, often very limited, out to the public as quickly as possible. 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, in order to prevent any future attacks which may be in the current planning stages.
All three of the major wanted lists now appear on the FBI web site along with several other types of wanted lists as well. All such FBI lists are grouped together under the heading "Wanted by the FBI."
Precedents and early versions
The FBI Seeking Information – War on Terrorism list has roots in the two earlier fugitive tracking FBI lists. During the 1990s decade in particular, the FBI began using the Ten Most Wanted list to profile some major terrorists, including Ramzi YousefRamzi Yousef
Ramzi Yousef was one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a co-conspirator in the Bojinka plot. In 1995, he was arrested at a guest house in Islamabad, by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence and United States Diplomatic Security Service, then extradited to the...
and Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...
Karan Vadher, among others, such as the 1988 mass murder bombers of Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways' third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London Heathrow Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport...
over Lockerbie, Scotland.
United States Department of State
The United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...
, in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security
Bureau of Diplomatic Security
The Bureau of Diplomatic Security, more commonly known as Diplomatic Security, or DS, is the security and law enforcement arm of the United States Department of State. DS is a world leader in international investigations, threat analysis, cyber security, counterterrorism, security technology, and...
. This DoS effort is known as the "Rewards for Justice Program," which began in 1984, and originally paid monetary rewards of up to $5 million for information countering terrorism.
After 9/11, in 2001, the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list was created, as a companion list to the extant FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Program, and to the State Department's Rewards for Justice Program.
Original list of 5 in videos from Atef rubble
After January 14, 2002 five suspected al-Qaeda members delivering what United States Attorney GeneralUnited States Attorney General
The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. The attorney general is considered to be the chief lawyer of the U.S. government...
John Ashcroft
John Ashcroft
John David Ashcroft is a United States politician who served as the 79th United States Attorney General, from 2001 until 2005, appointed by President George W. Bush. Ashcroft previously served as the 50th Governor of Missouri and a U.S...
described as "martyrdom messages from suicide terrorists" were found on five discovered videos, recovered from the rubble of the home of Mohammad Atef outside of Kabul, Afghanistan. NBC News
NBC News
NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. It first started broadcasting in February 21, 1940. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is...
said that the five videos had been recorded after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
In response, on January 17, 2002 the FBI released to the public the first Most Wanted Terrorists Seeking Information list (now known as the FBI's "Seeking Information - War on Terrorism" list), in order to profile the five wanted terrorists about whom very little was known, but who were suspected of plotting additional terrorist attacks in martyrdom operations. (see current version displaying photos of five terrorists on the remaining martyrdom videos FBI list, as of June 2006) The videos were shown by the FBI without sound, to guard against the possibility that the messages contained signals for other terrorists.
Ashcroft called upon people worldwide to help "identify, locate and incapacitate terrorists who are suspected of planning additional attacks against innocent civilians." "These men could be anywhere in the world," he said. Ashcroft added that an analysis of the audio suggested "the men may be trained and prepared to commit future suicide terrorist acts."
On that day, Ramzi bin al-Shibh was one of the only four known names among the five. Ashcroft said not much was known about any of them except bin al-Shibh. The other initial known three are still featured in compiled video clips on the FBI site, in order of appearance, Muhammad Sa'id Ali Hasan, Abd al-Rahim, and Khalid Ibn Muhammad Al-Juhani. The fifth wanted terrorist was identified a week later as Abderraouf Jdey, alias: Al Rauf Bin Al Habib Bin Yousef Al-Jiddi.
The initial five terrorists on videos from the Atef rubble profiled on the list were:
| Ramzi bin al-Shibh | U.S. prisoner September 14, 2002, at an undisclosed location; removed from FBI list by October 17, 2002 ; transferred to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as of September 6, 2006 |
| Abd al-Rahim | Found to be a prisoner of the Taliban in January 2002, taken into US custody and sent to Guantanamo Bay. Archived to FBI "Martyrdom Messages/video" page February 2, 2003 |
| Muhammad Sa'id Ali Hasan Muhammad Sa'id Ali Hasan Muhammad Sa'id Ali Hasan was self-implicated on videotape as a possible terrorist in 2002, and has since then been wanted by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which is seeking information about his identity and whereabouts... |
archived to FBI "Martyrdom Messages/video" page February 2, 2003 |
| Khalid Ibn Muhammad Al-Juhani Khalid Ibn Muhammad Al-Juhani Khalid Ibn Muhammad Al-Juhani was a Saudi member of al-Qaeda who appeared cradling a rifle, in a 2002 videotape in which he promised a "martyrdom" attack... |
Archived to FBI "Martyrdom Messages/video" page February 2, 2003. Died in the Riyadh compound bombings Riyadh compound bombings The Riyadh compound bombings took place on May 12, 2003, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Altogether, 35 people were killed, and over 160 wounded. A smaller campaign of insurgency in Saudi Arabia had started in November 2000 when car bombings were carried out targeting and killing individual expatriates in... three months later. |
| Abderraouf Jdey Abderraouf Jdey A Canadian citizen, Abderraouf bin Habib bin Yousef Jdey was found swearing to die as a shaheed on a series of videotapes found in the rubble of Mohammed Atef's house in Afghanistan... |
----
Montreal, Canada plot
A week after the initial Afghanistan martyrdom videos were released, the FBI had identified the fifth name, al-Jiddi, or Jdey, a resident of Montreal, Canada. An international manhunt was launched January 25, 2002 for his companion, a Canadian citizen named Faker Boussora, then 37. U.S. officials said the two Tunisian-born Canadians were part of a Canadian group plotting to kill more civilians.Added to the list on January 25, 2002 was:
| Faker Ben Abdelazziz Boussora |
Yemen plot
On February 11, 2002, the FBI added an additional 17 terrorists to the list. But several days later, on February 14, 2002, six of the names were removed, and the FBI re-published the list as only eleven names and photos, because it was discovered that confusion over transliteration had failed to reveal initially that the removed six wanted terrorists were already in prison in YemenYemen
The Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east....
. According to the FBI report, as a result of US military operations in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
and on-going interviews of detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, information became available on February 11, 2002 regarding threats to US interests which indicated that a planned attack may have been about to occur in the United States or against US interests in the country of Yemen on or around the next day, February 12, 2002.
The six names identified in the Yemen plot on February 11, 2002, but removed from the list on February 14, 2002 as already in Yemen custody were:
| Issam Ahmad Dibwan al-Makhlafi Issam Ahmad Dibwan al-Makhlafi Issam Ahmad Dibwan al-Makhlafi , aka Akrama, became briefly wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts... |
removed from FBI wanted list February 14, 2002 |
| Ahmad al-Akhader Nasser Albidani Ahmad al-Akhader Nasser Albidani Ahmad al-Akhader Nasser Albidani , , became briefly wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts... |
removed from FBI wanted list February 14, 2002 |
| Bashir Ali Nasser al-Sharari Bashir Ali Nasser al-Sharari Bashir Ali Nasser al-Sharari , , became briefly wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts... |
removed from FBI wanted list February 14, 2002 |
| Abdulaziz Muhammad Saleh bin Otash Abdulaziz Muhammad Saleh bin Otash Abdulaziz Muhammad Saleh bin Otash , , became briefly wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts... |
removed from FBI wanted list February 14, 2002 |
| Shuhour Abdullah Mukbil al-Sabri Shuhour Abdullah Mukbil al-Sabri Shuhour Abdullah Mukbil al-Sabri , , became briefly wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts... |
removed from FBI wanted list February 14, 2002 |
| Riyadh Shikawi | removed from FBI wanted list February 14, 2002 |
The eleven names who were still being sought on February 14, 2002 in relation to the planned February 12, 2002 Yemen plot were:
| Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei | leader of the Yemen cell; archived to FBI "February 2002, Seeking Information Alert" page February 2, 2003; Yemen prisoner in 2004, sentenced to death; escaped from Yemen prison in San'a February 3, 2006 |
| Alyan Muhammad Ali al-Wa'eli Alyan Muhammad Ali al-Wa'eli Alyan Muhammad Ali al-Wa'eli became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. He was identified as a known associate of the Yemen cell leader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei... |
archived to FBI "February 2002, Seeking Information Alert" page February 2, 2003 |
| Bassam Abdullah bin Bushar al-Nahdi Bassam Abdullah bin Bushar al-Nahdi Bassam Abdullah bin Bushar al-Nahdi became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. He was identified as a known associate of the Yemen cell leader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei... |
archived to FBI "February 2002, Seeking Information Alert" page February 2, 2003 |
| Mustafa Abdulkader Aabed al-Ansari Mustafa Abdulkader Aabed al-Ansari Mustafa Abdulkader Aabed al-Ansari became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. He was identified as a known associate of the Yemen cell leader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei... |
archived to FBI "February 2002, Seeking Information Alert" page February 2, 2003 |
| Omar Ahmad Omar al-Hubishi Omar Ahmad Omar al-Hubishi Omar Ahmad Omar al-Hubishi became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. He was identified as a known associate of the Yemen cell leader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei... |
archived to FBI "February 2002, Seeking Information Alert" page February 2, 2003 |
| Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli Ammar Abadah Nasser al-Wa'eli became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. He was identified as a known associate of the Yemen cell leader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei... |
archived to FBI "February 2002, Seeking Information Alert" page February 2, 2003 |
| Samir Abduh Sa'id al-Maktawi Samir Abduh Sa'id al-Maktawi Samir Abduh Sa'id al-Maktawi became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. He was identified as a known associate of the Yemen cell leader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei... |
archived to FBI "February 2002, Seeking Information Alert" page February 2, 2003 |
| Abdulrab Muhammad Muhammad Ali al-Sayfi Abdulrab Muhammad Muhammad Ali al-Sayfi Abdulrab Muhammad Muhammad Ali al-Sayfi a Yemeni, became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts... |
archived to FBI "February 2002, Seeking Information Alert" page February 2, 2003 |
| Abu Nasr al-Tunisi Abu Nasr al-Tunisi Abu Nasr al-Tunisi , possibly a Tunisian, became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. In early 2002, he had been named in a suspected Yemen plot, for which he became listed on the FBI's third major... |
removed from FBI wanted list by March 21, 2002 |
| Abu Mu'az al-Jeddawi Abu Mu'az al-Jeddawi Abu Mu'az al-Jeddawi , a Saudi who reportedly lived in Yemen, is believed to have been rendered by the CIA to Jordan in early 2002. His real name is believed to be Ahmad Ibrahim Abu al-Hasana.... |
removed from FBI wanted list by March 21, 2002 |
| Amin Saad Muhammad al-Zumari Amin Saad Muhammad al-Zumari Amin Saad Muhammad al-Zumari , , became wanted in 2002, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts... |
removed from FBI wanted list by March 21, 2002 |
By March 21, 2002 three of those remaining eleven suspects (Tunisi, Jeddawi, and Zumari) had also been removed from the FBI list, leaving only eight wanted suspects from the Yemen plot still at large. Along with the earlier six suspects on the list, they brought the total count outstanding for the list to fourteen at that time.
The February 12, 2002 attack never occurred, but a series of plots and attacks followed later that year in Yemen, including the suicide bombing of the Limburg
Maritime Jewel
The Maritime Jewel is a double hull oil tanker built in 2000; its length is and its width is . It was known as the Limburg until 2003.-Bombing:...
, a French oil tanker, for which al-Rabeei and others were later convicted. As of 2006, all the individuals of the February 12, 2002 Yemen plot have since been removed from the FBI's current main wanted page and from the official count for the Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list. But the FBI continues to list eight of those listed terrorists with photos on the linked archived page for the "February 2002 Seeking Information Alert."
Revisions and additions
By February 2, 2003, the FBI rearranged its entire wanted lists on its web site, into the current configuration. The outstanding five martyr video suspects (including Jdey's Montreal associate Boussora) were moved to a separate linked page, titled "Martyrdom Messages/video, Seeking Information Alert" (Although both Jdey and Boussora were later returned to the main FBI list page). Additionally, the remaining eight Yemen plot suspects were archived to a linked page titled, "February 2002, Seeking Information Alert". Around this time the FBI also changed the name of the list, to the FBI "Seeking Information - War on Terrorism", to distinguish it from its other wanted list of "Seeking Information," which the FBI already uses for ordinary fugitives, those who are not terrorists.Along with the re-arrangement, the FBI also continued to add new fugitive names to the list, including one member of The Portland Seven
The Portland Seven
The Portland Seven was a group of American Muslims from the Portland, Oregon area arrested in October 2002 as part of an FBI operation attempting to close down a terrorist cell...
terror cell.
February 2003 alert
| Amer el-Maati Amer el-Maati Born in Kuwait, Amro Badr Abou el-Maati is a Canadian citizen who the United States has alleged is a member of Al-Qaeda who attended flight school and discussed hijacking a Canadian plane to fly into American buildings... |
|
| Habis Abdulla Al Saoub Habis Abdulla al Saoub Habis Abdulla al Saoub, aka Abu Tarek, was a Jordanian national and member of the Portland Seven, and later a member of an al Qaeda cell... |
killed in Pakistan October 2003, removed from the list June 24, 2004 |
----
April - June 2003 alerts
By June 2003, several new terrorist suspects were added:| Jaber A. Elbaneh Jaber A. Elbaneh Jaber A. Elbaneh is a Yemeni-American who was labeled a suspected terrorist by the United States after it emerged that he had attended al-Farooq alongside the Lackawanna Six, and remained on at the camp after they returned home... |
moved to FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list February 23, 2006 |
| Jamal Mohammad Ahmad Ali Al-Badawi Jamal al-Bedawi Jamal Ahmad Mohammad Ali Al Badawi aka Jamal Abu Abed Al Rahman Al Badawi is a Yemeni who was convicted of helping plan the 2000 USS Cole bombing, which killed 17 American sailors on October 12, 2000 off the port coast of Aden, Yemen.He was captured in Yemen and sentenced to death on September... |
removed from FBI list October 10, 2004 ; escaped with 22 others from a Yemeni jail on February 3, 2006 ; moved to FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list February 23, 2006 |
| Fahd Mohammed Ahmed Al-Quso Fahd Mohammed Ahmed Al-Quso Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso is also known as Fahd Al-Quso, Abu Huthaifah, Abu Huthaifah Al-Yemeni, Abu Al-Bara', Abu Hathayfah Al-Adani, Abu Huthaifah Al-Adani, Fahd Mohammed Ahmed Al-Awlaqi, Huthaifah Al-Yemeni, or Abu Huthaifah Al-Abu Al-Bara. Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso is a known terrorist... |
removed from the FBI list October 10, 2004 |
| Dr. Mohammed Khan | located by June 2003, removed from list before 2006 |
| Aafia Siddiqui Aafia Siddiqui Aafia Siddiqui is an American-educated Pakistani cognitive neuroscientist who was convicted of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan. The charges carried a maximum sentence of life in prison; in September 2010, she was sentenced by a United States district court to 86... |
located by March 2003 in Afghanistan. Removed from list in 2008. |
| Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah Born in Saudi Arabia, Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah is a member of al-Qaeda, who grew up in the United States and worked as a school teacher.... |
----
October 8, 2003 alerts
Two new additions to the list were introduced by October 8, 2003. In addition, Jdey was also moved on to the main list page, from the earlier archived 2002 group:| Zubayr Al-Rimi Zubayr Al-Rimi Al-Rimi's wife was arrested in the beginning of June along with the wife of al-Faqasi and two other women. She was turned over to his father for safekeeping, who sought to return her to Morocco.... |
removed from the list before 2006 |
| Karim El Mejjati | removed from the list before 2006 |
----
Summer 2004 terror alert
On May 26, 2004, United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert MuellerRobert Mueller
Robert Swan Mueller III is the 6th and current Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation .-Early life:...
announced that reports indicated that seven al-Qaeda members were planning a terrorist action for the summer or fall of 2004. The alleged terrorists listed on that date were Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is a conspirator of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization convicted for his role in the bombing of embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He was indicted in the United States as a participant in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings. He was on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list from its...
, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was a member of al-Qaeda, and the leader of its presence in East Africa as of November 2009. Mohammed was born in Moroni, Comoros Islands and had Kenyan as well as Comorian citizenship...
, and Abderraouf Jdey, along with Amer El-Maati, Aafia Siddiqui, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, and Adnan G. el Shukrijumah. The first two had been listed as FBI Most Wanted Terrorists since 2001, indicted for their roles in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings. Jdey was already on the FBI's "Seeking Information" wanted list since January 17, 2002, and el-Maati since February 2003, and Siddiqui and Shukrijumah also since early 2003. Gadahn was added as well to the Seeking Information list.
| Adam Yahiye Gadahn Adam Yahiye Gadahn Adam Yahiye Gadahn is an American who is a senior operative, cultural interpreter, spokesman and media advisor for the Sunni islamist group Al-Qaeda. Since 2004, he appeared in a number of videos produced by Al-Qaeda as "Azzam the American"... |
moved to FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list October 11, 2006 |
----
Escapees from Yemen prison
23 people, 12 of them al-Qaeda members, such as Holden Weihl, escaped from a Yemeni jail on February 3, 2006, according to a BBC report. On February 23, 2006 the U.S. FBI confirmed the escape, as they issued a national Press Release naming some of the escapees as new Most Wanted Terrorists, and also one of the escapees as a new addition to the Seeking Information list, Abdullah Al-Rimi. He was being sought for questioning relating to any knowledge he might have of the 2000 attack on the USS Cole.Not appearing on any of the FBI "wanted" lists, but also believed to be among the Yemen escapees, was al-Qaeda's Yemeni number two, Abu Assem al-Ahdal.
With this one addition below, as of February 23, 2006 the total count on the outstanding Seeking Information list stood at eight.
| Abdullah Al-Rimi Abdullah Al-Rimi Abdullah Al-Rimi became wanted in 2006, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, "sought in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States." He was one of 23 people who escaped from Yemen prison in San'a, along with the Yemen cell leader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei... |
removed from FBI wanted list before September 2006 |
----
Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and Kenya and Indonesia attacks
The very next day, on February 24, 2006, the FBI added an additional three names to the Seeking Information – War on Terrorism list, most notably, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the notorious leader of Al-Qaeda in IraqAl-Qaeda in Iraq
Al-Qaeda in Iraq is a popular name for the Iraqi division of the international Salafi jihadi militant organization al-Qaeda. It is recognized as a part of the greater Iraqi insurgency....
. This marked the first time that al-Zarqawi had appeared on any of the three major FBI wanted lists. On June 8, 2006, ABCNEWS reported that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was confirmed to have been killed in Baghdad in a bombing raid the day before by a United States task force. His death was confirmed by multiple sources in Iraq, including the United States government. Al-Zarqawi has often been confused with Ayman al-Zawahiri
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri is an Egyptian physician, Islamic theologian and current leader of al-Qaeda. He was previously the second and last "emir" of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, having succeeded Abbud al-Zumar in the latter role when Egyptian authorities sentenced al-Zumar to life...
, who is one of the original FBI Most Wanted Terrorists on the list since 2001.
Saleh Nabhan was wanted for questioning for attacks in Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
in 2002. Noordin Top is allegedly a member of the Jemaah Islamiyah
Jemaah Islamiyah
Jemaah Islamiah , is a Southeast Asian militant Islamic organization dedicated to the establishment of a Daulah Islamiyah in Southeast Asia incorporating Indonesia, Malaysia, the southern Philippines, Singapore and Brunei...
group which was involved in bombings in Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
between 2002 and 2004. With these three additions, as of February 24, 2006 the total count on the outstanding Seeking Information list stood at ten.
| Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ; October 30, 1966 – June 7, 2006), born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh was a Jordanian militant Islamist who ran a paramilitary training camp in Afghanistan... |
killed June 7, 2006 in Iraq Iraq Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert.... ; removed from list October 12, 2006 |
| Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan | killed in Somalia Sept 14, 2009 |
| Noordin Mohammad Top | killed in Indonesia Sept 17, 2009 |
As of September 2006, al-Rimi had been removed, but al-Zarqawi still remained listed, but as deceased, with the total profile list count then outstanding at nine.