Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah (June 19, 1964 – April 12, 2006) was an Egypt

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ian national wanted by the United States

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 government.

Also known as Abdul Rahman, Abdul Rahman Al-Muhajir, Abdel Rahman, and Mohammed K.A., he was wanted by the United States government in connection to the August 7, 1998 American embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam

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, Tanzania

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 and Nairobi

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, Kenya

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. For his role in that attack, he was indicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

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.

Consequently on October 10, 2001, Atwah was placed on the initial list of the FBI's top 22 Most Wanted Terrorists

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, which was released to the public by President Bush. According to that list he was thought to be in Afghanistan.

Atwah had been a member of al Qaeda since at least 1990 and provided explosives training in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan, according to his indictment.

The indictment also charged that Atwah had been part of an al Qaeda cell operating in Somalia in the early 1990s that provided training to Somali tribesmen who attacked U.S. forces in that country.

By early 2006, he was suspected as a key supplier of arms to terrorists battling Pakistani forces in North and South Waziristan.

On April 12, 2006, Atwah was reported by an anonymous Pakistani Cabinet minister to have been killed along with 6 other militants, by Pakistani forces in a helicopter gunship raid on the village of Naghar Kalai near the Afghan border. Villagers reported that armed men removed the bodies. Atwah's death was confirmed by US officials on October 24, 2006, following DNA testing. His profile had been removed from the FBI's most wanted terrorists website by October 20, 2006.

External links

• Wanted list at the Rewards For Justice Program
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