Muslims make up 30 of 31 on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s list of “Ten Most Wanted” fugitives dates back to 1950 but the list of “Most Wanted Terrorists” dates back to just after 9/11 and a sense that terrorism had become a strategic threat. Today, the list includes 31 individuals, all of them male and with a single exception (Daniel Andreas San Diego, an animal rights extremist), all of them Muslim:


•Abd al Aziz Awda – 1950, Palestinian, Palestinian Islamic Jihad
•Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser – ca. 1947, Saudi, Saudi Hizbullah
•Abdul Rahman Yasin – 1960, American, World Trade Center bombing in 1993
•Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah – 1963, Egyptian, Kenya and Tanzania embassy bombings in 1998
•Adam Yahiye Gadahn – 1978, American, Al-Qaeda
•Adnan G. El Shukrijumah – 1975, Guyanese, Al-Qaeda
•Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Mughassil – 1967, Saudi, Saudi Hizbullah
•Ali Atwa – ca. 1960, Lebanese, TWA hijacking in 1985
•Ali Saed Bin Ali El-Hoorie – 1965, Saudi, Saudi Hizbullah
•Anas Al-Liby – 1964, Libyan, Kenya and Tanzania embassy bombings in 1998
•Ayman Al-Zawahiri – 1951, Egyptian, Al-Qaeda
•Faouzi Mohamad Ayoub – 1966, Lebanese, Lebanese Hizbullah
•Hakimullah Mehsud – ca. 1980, Pakistani, Pakistani Taliban
•Hasan Izz-Al-Din – 1963, Lebanese, TWA hijacking in 1985
•Husayn Muhammad Al-Umari – 1936, Lebanese, 15 May Organization
•Ibrahim Salih Mohammed Al-Yacoub – 1966, Saudi, Saudi Hizbullah
•Isnilon Totoni Hapilon – 1966, Filipino, Abu Sayyaf Group
•Jaber A. Elbaneh – 1966, Yemeni, Al-Qaeda
•Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim – 1965, Palestinian, Pan Am hijacking in 1986
•Jamel Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Badawi – 1960, Yemeni, USS Cole bombing in 2000
•Jehad Serwan Mostafa – 1981, American, Al-Shabaab
•Mohammed Ali Hamadei – 1964, Lebanese, Lebanese Hizbullah
•Muhammad Abdullah Khalil Hussain Ar-Rahayyal – 1965, Palestinian, Pan Am hijacking in 1986
•Muhammad Ahmed Al-Munawar – 1965, Palestinian, Abu Nidal Organization
•Omar Shafik Hammami – 1984, American, Al-Shabaab
•Raddulan Sahiron – ca. 1936, Filipino, Abu Sayyaf Group
•Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah – 1958, Palestinian, Palestinian Islamic Jihad
•Saif Al-Adel – ca. 1960, Egyptian, Al-Qaeda
•Wadoud Muhammad Hafiz Al-Turki – 1955, Palestinian, Pan Am hijacking in 1986
•Zulkifli Abdhir – 1966, Malaysian, Kumpulun Mujahidin Malaysia



Muslims make up 30 out of 31 most wanted terrorists, or about 97 percent of them.

Ethnic Arabs make up 25 of the 30 terrorists. The largest numbers are 4 each of Lebanese, Palestinians, and Saudis, 3 each of Americans and Egyptians. Non-ethnic Arabs include 2 Filipinos, 1 Malaysian, 1 Pakistani, and 1 American convert.

[link to www.fbi.gov]