October 24, 2006

WE ONLY HAVE TO GET LUCKY ONCE, THEY HAVE TO BE LUCKY EVERY DAY:

One of FBI's 'Most Wanted Terrorists' confirmed dead (CNN, 10/24/06)

An al Qaeda operative wanted in connection with the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings was killed in April in Pakistan, American officials have confirmed.

Pakistani officials had said that Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah was killed in North Waziristan during an airstrike by Pakistani forces near the border with Afghanistan.

DNA testing confirmed the Pakistani government's claim, U.S. officials said, and Atwah's name was removed from the FBI's list of Most Wanted Terrorists.

Atwah, 42, was born in Egypt. He was indicted in connection with al Qaeda's suicide bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 24, 2006 10:35 PM
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