Muhammad Sa'id Ali Hasan
Muhammad Sa'id Ali Hasan al-Umda (died 22 April 2012), also known as Gharib al-Taezi,
Videocassette recovery
On January 14, 2002, a series of five videocassettes were recovered from the rubble of the destroyed home of
Most Wanted list
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. 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 the only known name among the five. Ashcroft said not much was known about any of them except bin al-Shibh.
The fifth wanted martyrdom terrorist was identified a week later as Abderraouf Jdey, alias: Al Rauf Bin Al Habib Bin Yousef Al-Jiddi.
Removal from list
Muhammad Sa'id Ali Hasan, along with three of the other four pledged martyrdom suicide terrorists, was later removed by the FBI from the official count on the main page of the Seeking Information list. 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). 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.[3]
Death
Hasan was killed in a drone strike in Yemen on April 22, 2012.[4]
References
- ^ "Читать онлайн "The Black Banners" автора Soufan Ali H. - RuLIT.Net - Страница 92". Archived from the original on 2014-10-23. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
- ^ CBC, Two Canadians among fugitive al-Qaeda members, January 26, 2002
- ^ "FBI Seeking Information - War on Terrorism". Archived from the original on February 2, 2003. Retrieved 2003-02-02.
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