NEW REWARD OFFERS
Pan Am Flight 73 Hijacking - Karachi, Pakistan - September 5, 1986
A reward of up to $5 million each for information ending with the arrest and/or conviction of Wadoud Muhammad Hafiz al-Turki, Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim, Muhammad Abdullah Khalil Hussain ar-Rahayyal, and Muhammad Ahmed al-Munawar has been approved by the U.S. Department of State. All of these individuals are thought to have been members of the Abu Nidal terrorist organization.
Pan Am flight 73 was commandeered while on the runway in Karachi, Pakistan, at approximately 6 a.m. on September 5, 1986 by members of the Abu Nidal Organization. Including at least 78 U.S. citizens, 379 passengers and crew were on board the aircraft at the time of the hijacking. The flight crew got away, leaving the airplane immobile. The hijackers secured the plane and demanded a flight crew to fly the plane, pirates, and riders to Cyprus. An American auto insurance agent was killed in the threshold of the airplane during the hijacking. The terrorists gunned down the passengers at the conclusion of the hijacking. Over 100 were gravely wounded, and no less than 20 passengers were executed.
Authorities in Pakistan apprehended four suspects at the scene and afterward caught a fifth suspect who aided in the planning of the assault. All five, including the four persons subject to this reward offer, underwent trial and were convicted and sentenced to prison in Pakistan.
Pakistani authorities released one the five convicted terrorists, Zayd Hassan Abd al-Latif Safarini, in September 2001. He later was arrested by the FBI and prosecuted in U.S. federal court. On December 16, 2003, Safarini accepted a plea agreement presented by the U.S. Department of Justice. He was sentenced to 160 years in prison on May 13, 2005.
The four hijackers subject to this reward offer were allegedly freed from Pakistani supervision In January 2008. Wadoud Muhammad Hafiz al-Turki, Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim, Muhammad Abdullah Khalil Hussain ar-Rahayyal, and Muhammad Ahmed al-Munawar have been charged in the District of Columbia for their parts in the hijacking and are still on the loose.
For more information, see Wanted for Terrorism.
- Wadoud Muhammad Hafiz al-Turki
- Muhammad Ahmed al-Munawar
- Muhammad Abdullah Khalil Hussain ar-Rahayyal
- Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim
Wanted
Husayn Muhammed al-Umari
Up to $5 Million Reward
| Place of Birth: | Jaffa, Palestine |
| Date of Birth: | Approximately 1936 |
| Height: | 5'6" - 5'8" |
| Eye: | Brown |
| Hair: | Black/Gray, Balding |
| Sex: | Male |
| Status: | Fugitive |
| Occupations: | Mechanic, Explosives Expert |
| Aliases: | Hussein Mohammed al-Umari, Abu Ibrahim, The Bomb Man |
| Scars and Marks: | Scar from the fingers of right hand extending to forearm; scar on the left hand in the web between his thumb and index finger |
A reward not exceeding $5 million for information culminating in the arrest and/or conviction of Husayn Muhammed al-Umari has been authorized by The U.S. Department of State.
Husayn Muhammed al-Umari is sought by the FBI for his supposed involvement in the August 11, 1982 bombing of Pan American World Airways flight 830, which led to the execution of one passenger, the wounding of 16 passengers, and the attempted killing of 267 passengers and the plane-bound crew. Al-Umari was one of three individuals indicted for the terrorist deed and is said to have contrived and constructed the explosive device which was set off while the airplane was flying from Narita, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii.
In the District of Columbia's U.S. District Court, Al-Umari was charged with: (1) Conspiracy to commit assault and harm property; (2) conspiracy to commit murder, (3) murder; (4) aircraft sabotage; (5) damaging aircraft used in foreign business (6) putting bombs on airplanes; (7) assault; (8) attempted aircraft sabotage, and (9) aiding and abetting. A co-conspirator, Mohammad Rashed, who placed the bomb on the aircraft, was arrested and brought to the United States in 1998. He signed a cooperation agreement as part of his guilty plea for his role in the bombing.
Al-Umari, thought to be a master bomb maker and one-time leader of the "15 May" terrorist group, also has been indicted by the Government of France for his actions in the 1985 bombing of the the Leumi Bank and the Marks and Spencer Department store in Paris.
Al-Umari's wife apparently lives in Lebanon, and he may have a passport to that country. He is the father of two daughters and two sons. He lived in Iraq for several years. It is possible that he is residing in Lebanon or Iraq, although his current whereabouts are unknown, He purportedly journeys everywhere packing a gun and should be regarded as armed and dangerous.