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Fawaz al-Rabihi

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Fawaz al-Rabihi

Details
	Importance	Medium
	Means of Death	Hostile fire from Yemeni security forces¹
	Date of Death	Oct. 1, 2006¹
	Location of Death	Sanaa, Yemen¹
	Affiliation	Al-Qaeda²
	Role	Cell Leader²
	Full Given Name	Fawaz Yayha al-Rabihi
	Nationality	Yemeni²
	Alias(es)	Furqan², Forqan Al-Tajiki², Furqan Al-Tajiki², Furgan Al-Tajiki², Furqan The Chechen², Faris Al-Baraq², Sa'id², Musharraf,², Salem Al-Farhan², Fawaz Yahya Al-Ribi ²
	Alternate Spelling(s)	Fawaz al-Rabeei, Fawaz Yahia Hassan Aribii, Fawaz Al-Rubai, Fawaz Yehia Hassan Al-Rabie, Fawaz Yahya Hasan Al-Rabi'i
	Rough Age at Death	27
	Date of Birth	1979²
	Place of Birth	Saudi Arabia²
	Gender	Male
	Charging authority	Yemen
	In connection with	Limburg oil tanker attacked
	Case status	Convicted¹
	Sentence	Death¹
	Case resolved	2005

Narrative and Notes

	Reliable	The FBI identified him as a cell leader in Yemen plotting in February 2002. He escaped from a Yemeni prison in February 2006, was found and killed by Yemeni security forces during a raid in Sanaa.^1,2

Sources
¹ 'Al-Qaeda fugitive killed in Yemen.' BBC: Oct. 1, 2006.
² FBI alert, Feb. 11, 2002.
Photo: FBI

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