(CNN) -- An al Qaeda operative wanted in connection with the 1998 U.S.
Embassy bombings was killed in April in Pakistan, American officials
have confirmed.
Pakistani officials had said that Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah was killed
in North Waziristan during an airstrike by Pakistani forces near the
border with Afghanistan.
DNA testing confirmed the Pakistani government's claim, U.S. officials
said, and Atwah's name was removed from the FBI's list of Most Wanted
Terrorists.
Atwah, 42, was born in Egypt. He was indicted in connection with al
Qaeda's suicide bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar
es Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks killed 224 people, including 12
Americans.
There was a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture.
Atwah, who also went by the alias Abdel Rahman al-Muhajer, had been a
member of al Qaeda since at least 1990 and provided explosives training
in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan, according to his indictment.
The indictment also charged that Atwah had been part of an al Qaeda
cell operating in Somalia in the early 1990s that provided training to
Somali tribesmen who attacked U.S. forces in that country.
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