U.S. issues $5M award for WTC fugitive (released from Iraqi prison in '03)

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The U.S. State Department said Monday it was offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the capture and conviction of the last remaining fugitive wanted for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

In a statement released in Baghdad, the State Department said it was looking for Iraqi-American Abdul Rahman Yasin, 45, believed to have helped build the bomb used in the Feb. 26, 1993, attack that killed six people.

The statement described Yasin as being 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing about 180 pounds. He is epileptic and "possibly has a noticeable chemical scar on his right thigh."

Yasin was born in Bloomington, Ind., of Iraqi parents and moved to Iraq when he was young. He returned to the United States as part of a terrorist group, the statement said.

After fleeing the United States following the 1993 bombing, he was arrested and held in an Iraqi prison until being released in 2003.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/04/04/us_issues_5m_award_for_wtc_fugitive/

control.

they can blame it on a damn "activist" judge?

They can blame anything on anyone they want, and they usually get away with it.

when Saddam emptied the prisons before the invasion.

http://web.amnesty.org/report2003/irq-summary-eng

"In October the Revolutionary Command Council, Iraq’s highest executive body, issued Decree No. 25, signed by President Saddam Hussain, purportedly ordering the release of all prisoners. The amnesty included “prisoners, detainees and fugitives jailed for political reasons and all other ordinary reasons, including sentenced to death… inside or outside Iraq”. However, it excluded Arabs condemned or accused of spying for Israel and the USA. The names of those who benefited from the amnesty were not published by the authorities and most of those released had reportedly been charged with offences such as drug smuggling, possession of weapons, collaboration with Iran, corruption and bribery. The releases were made conditional in November when a new decree was issued stating that those released would not be pardoned if they committed fresh offences.

Hundreds of Iraqis living abroad, including opposition activists, were said to have returned to the country following the amnesty. The fate of the tens of thousands of people who “disappeared” in the 1980s and in 1991, including foreign nationals, remained unknown."

Prisons were pretty much empty.

"No details were available about the fate of the approximately 16,500 people reported “disappeared”, mainly ethnic Kurds and Shi’as but including the approximately 600 Kuwaitis reported to have been in Iraqi custody but unaccounted for since the 1991 Gulf War."

http://hrw.org/worldreport99/mideast/iraq.html

Bush's own website agrees with the 16,500;

"In 1999, the UN Special Rapporteur stated that Iraq remains the country with the highest number of disappearances known to the UN: over 16,000."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect4.html

Funny how bushCartel & Faux Moos turned that figure into "millions". So how many Americans "disappear" in 10 years, I wonder.

It was irrelevant to my point.

Maybe, maybe not. I guess we would need specific dates.

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They had offered $25 Million over 3 years ago!

AND

The US TWICE refused offers from Iraq to deliver Yasin to the United States, most recent was in October of 2001

( note: - the following was one paragraph - I broke it up for easier reading - nothing edited)

"Early in their investigation the FBI had gone to Yasin's apartment in the same building in Jersey City as Yousef and taken him in for questioning. Since he seemed to be cooperating (and showed them the location of the apartment where the chemicals had been mixed), they let him go despite a chemical burn on his leg that suggested he could have been more than a nosy neighbor. Yasin then hopped onto a plane for Iraq.

He was picked up by the Iraqi police a year later and has been held without a charge placed against him.

On "60 Minutes" Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz told Leslie Stahl that Iraq has twice offered to deliver him to the United States, but only upon written receipt that Iraq had given him up… "like a receipt for a FedEx package" but that the US had rejected the offer. Aziz said Iraq was fearful that the FBI had let Yasin go free in 1993 to set up a sting operation to implicate Iraq in the WTC attack.

Their second offer (in October 2001) further required a statement that the US acknowledge that Yasin had been incarcerated in Iraq on September 11th.

In Yasin's prison interview with Leslie Stahl he said Iraq was not involved in the 1993 attack, admitted his guilt in helping mix chemicals and in scouting possible bomb sites (including Hasidic-populated Crown Heights in Brooklyn) and expressed remorse. He has been on the FBI "most Wanted" list with a $25 million reward offered.

CBS, Sixty Minutes, "The Man Who Got Away", June 3, 2002; New York Times-Reuters, "Report: Iraq Offered to Hand Over Terror Suspect", June 2, 2002."

http://www.janrainwater.com/htdocs/afghan2.htm

I just noticed the condition that the US admit that he was in jail on 9/11 (that the US refused to acknowledge)

Methinks the US is STILL tryna make some Iraqi connection for 9/11 that it can peddle to the Murikkkan sheeples -

AND

if ur tryna REALLY catch someone -

it'd be good to have an updated picture of them ?

On the FBI Website - this is the picture of Yasim



Yet,

in the CBS's 60 minutes interview article written 3 years ago

THIS is what Yasin looked like in 2002


Abdul Rahman Yasin (Photo: CBS)

:wtf:

Murrikkkan Intelligentsia -

jus boggles this wee Canuk brain!

Yasin was picked up by the FBI a few days after the bombing in an apartment in Jersey City, N.J., that he was sharing with his mother. He was so helpful and cooperative, giving the FBI names and addresses, that they released him.

Yasin says he was even driven back home in an FBI car. he FBI agree, saying they decided to let Yasin go free.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/31/60minutes/main510795.shtml

Cheney claimed that 1993 World Trade Center bombing co-conspirator Abdul Rahman Yasin had received “financing” and “safe haven” from Saddam’s government. The ol' bushit that "Saddam harbored terra-ists" crap.

You have to really love this one...yeah he did. Sort of. He was in an Iraqi JAIL from 1994 until shortly before the invasion;

"He was being clothed and fed by them so long as he wore stripes,” joked one U.S. investigator.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3067794 /

Yasin had hopped onto a plane for Iraq. He was picked up by the Iraqi police a year later and had been held without a charge placed against him. Iraq had twice offered to deliver him to the United States, but only upon written receipt that Iraq had given him up… "like a receipt for a FedEx package"
http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2002/msg00755.html

But the US refused the offers.

Mr Aziz said the offers to hand him over - first in 1994 and again in 2001 after the 11 September attacks - were made without conditions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2022991.stm

Yasin, whose picture is on the FBI Web site along with Osama bin Laden, is one of President Bush’s 22 most-wanted terrorists.

SO WHY DID BUSH REFUSE IRAQ'S OFFER TO HAND YASIN OVER ON A PLATTER IN 2001?

and too much of the truth may have come out.

Notice that there have been no public trials of anyone involved in 9-11?

that "Saddam harbors terra-ists".

Never mind that the "harboring" of Yasin was in Abu Ghraib.

Never mind that the "harboring" of Zarqawi was in US-CONTROLLED Kurdish Iraq and out of Hussein's control for over a decade.

As always with bush, SCREW THE PEOPLE & let them DIE; as long as bush gets POLITICAL USE out of the situation.

but didn't because Zarqawi WAS "alQaeda is in Iraq"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601/
March 2, 2004
But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger.




The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security Council.

Four months later, intelligence showed Zarqawi was planning to use ricin in terrorist attacks in Europe.

The Pentagon drew up a second strike plan, and the White House again killed it. By then the administration had set its course for war with Iraq.

The Pentagon drew up still another attack plan, and for the third time, the National Security Council killed it.

Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.

oops

but and idiot to be sure. I mean a simpleton. The FBI let him go because he was absolutely no use to them. Rasin just happened to live in the same building as Yussef and so they used him to ride around in the car and to care the bomb making stuff but he had no use to them other than that.

The FBI let Rasin go-drove him home-and Rasin hauled ass to Iraq where he was jailed. Saddam repeatedly tried to offer Rasin in trade or sign of good faith but was repeatedly rejected because Rasin was useless to everyone.

This is just a hobgoblin.

We're not after bin Laden, why should this guy be worried?