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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Abdul Rahman Yasin
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Race: Other |
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Age Now: 48 |
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Height: 5'10" |
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Weight: 180 lbs |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Black
Moustache |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Brown |
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Wanted for :
Assault Of A Federal Officer In The Line Of Duty, New York, NY;
Feb 26, 1993
Aiding and Abetting
Importation,Manufacture,Distribution Storage Of Explosive Materials ;
Feb 26, 1993
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Unkown |
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Possible Location : Iraq
Jersey City, NJ |
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Last Known : Unkown |
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Traits |
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Case Story |
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The First World Trade Center Attack |
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On February 26, 1993, bombs rocked the World Trade Center in New York City for the first time. The FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force reports that over 1,000 people were injured in the explosions, while six were killed.
Investigators say that Abdul Yasin was one of the men behind the attacks that police report caused more than half a billion dollars in damage. Yasin was born in Bloomington, Ind., but is now believed to be in Iraq. |
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One-On-One With A Suspected Terrorist Mastermind |
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Abdul Rahman Yasin, the sole remaining fugitive indicted for the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing, has been located and interviewed in Baghdad. In 2001, America's Most Wanted aired a segment detailing Yasin's involvement in the 1993 bombing and reported that he was likely being protected in Baghdad by Saddam Hussein.
CBS News reported that they found Yasin in Baghdad, and with the approval of the Iraqi government, conducted an interview between he and correspondent Leslie Stahl. Abdul Rahman Yasin fled to Iraq after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He lived as a free man for a year, but authorities in Iraq told CBS News they put him in prison in 1994.
After September 11th, President Bush put Yasin on a new most wanted list, with a $25 million reward. According to CBS News, Yasin tells Stahl that the twin towers were not the terrorists' first choice. Yasin tells Stahl "[Ramzi Yousef] told me, 'I want to blow up Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn.'" But after scouting Crown Heights and Williamsburg, Yasin says, Yousef had a better idea. "Ramzi Yousef told us to go to the World Trade Center. 'I have an idea we should do one big explosion rather than do small ones in Jewish neighborhoods,'" Yasin says.
The FBI says they never knew that Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn were on the original hit list of Yousef and his co-conspirator, Mohammed Salameh. Agents say they believe Yasin may have been told what to say by Iraqi intelligence. During the Stahl interview, Yasin, now 40, says he is sorry for what he did and that the bombers, whom he says he met for the first time while living in a Jersey City apartment building, talked him into it. "[Yousef and Salameh] used to tell me how Arabs suffered a great deal and that we have to send a message that this is not right, to revenge for my Palestinian brothers and my brothers in Saudi Arabia," Yasin tells Stahl. He adds that they also prodded him about being an Iraqi who should avenge the defeat of Iraq in the Gulf War.
Yasin confirms that Yousef was the maker of the bomb used in the attack and that Yousef learned the process in a terrorist camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, before entering the United States. According to CBS News, 60 Minutes has independently confirmed that the man interviewed is, in fact, Abdul Rahman Yasin, whose picture is on the FBI Web site along with Usama bin Laden. Yasin is indicted in the United States for his participation in the 1993 World Trade Center attack. |
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