Abdul Rahman Yasin

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Abdul Rahman Yasin Biography

Iraqi extremist who assisted in the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. He was released from custody after taking to the FBI and flew back to Iraq in March 1993.

He was born in Bloomington and was recruited by Pakistani terrorist Ramzi Yousef.

The Iraqi government wanted certain United Nations sanctions lifted in exchange for handing him over the United States, but negotiations fell through.

His father moved from Iraq to Indiana to study for his PhD.

Once he returned to Iraq, he was given money by former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Abdul Rahman Yasin (Arabic: عبد الرحمن يس ‎; born April 10, 1960) is an Iraqi-American fugitive who helped make the bombs used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack. He has been characterized in the American media as “the only participant in the first attempt to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993 who was never caught.” Yasin’s whereabouts remain unknown.

In 1992, Yasin was able to use his American birth citizenship to obtain a US passport and thus enter the United States.

In March 1993, Yasin boarded Royal Jordanian flight 262 to Amman, Jordan. From Amman, Abdul Rahman Yasin went on to Baghdad. November 1997 marked the month when two others were convicted in a court for their contributions to the bombing, but only “one other man believed to be directly involved in the attack, Iraqi Abdul Rahman Yasin, remained at large.”

Soon following investigation of the attack on February 26, 1993, Yasin was picked up by the FBI on March 4, 1993, the same day as the arrest of Mohammed A. Salameh, in a sweep of sites associated with Salameh. Yasin was found in the apartment in Jersey City, New Jersey, that he was sharing with his mother. Yasin was taken to New Jersey FBI headquarters in Newark, where he was reportedly very cooperative. Agents had Yasin retrace where and how the WTC bomb had been built in New York and New Jersey. Yasin said he was released after giving agents names and addresses, and went to Iraq.

In 1994, the Iraqi authorities arrested and imprisoned Yasin, and sent an emissary to the State Department to inform them that they had crucial information about a perpetrator of the World Trade Center attack and were prepared to cooperate. The State Department did not respond to the offer.

Despite the fact that a direct al-Qaida role in the 1993 WTC attack was never established, Abdul Rahman Yasin was listed on 17 October 2001 as being associated with the organization known as al-Qaida, the individual named Osama bin Laden and the organization known as the Taliban, for his participation:

In spite of the fact that the U.S. government had been informed of Yasin’s whereabouts, on October 10, 2001, Yasin’s name appeared at the top of the list of the FBI’s 22 Most Wanted Terrorists, which was released to the public by President George W. Bush with a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture.

On May 23, 2002 the Iraqis gave Lesley Stahl of CBS News access to an Iraqi prison to interview Yasin for a segment on 60 Minutes where Yasin appeared in prison pajamas and handcuffs. The Iraqis stated they had held Yasin prisoner on the outskirts of Baghdad since 1994. Yasin has not been seen or heard from since the 2002 prison interview.

In 2002, following the 9/11 attacks, Iraq attempted to hand Yasin over to the US government and began negotiating extradition protocols with the Americans via Egypt. However, negotiations hit a snag when US intelligence refused to provide Iraq with a receipt citing unfair demands—an official statement acknowledging Yassin had been handed over.

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