Abu Nasr al-Tunisi (), possibly a

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

n, became wanted in 2002, by the

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, which was then seeking information about his identity and whereabouts. He was identified as a known associate of the Yemen cell leader,

Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeiee (1979 – October 1, 2006) was a Yemeni Islamist militant who was a cell ringleader for al-Qaeda in Yemen (AQY). Rabeiee and his cell were responsible for several attacks and plots on behalf of AQY, most prominently the M ...

. He is no longer listed by the FBI on their "Seeking Information" lists.

2002 Yemeni terror alert

On February 11, 2002, al-Tunisi was named in a suspected Yemen plot, for which he was among 17 suspected terrorists (3 days later reduced to 11 suspects) were added to the FBI's third major "wanted" list, the " Seeking Information" list. By 2006, his details had been removed and archived from the FBI's current main wanted pages. Whether foiled, aborted, or merely incorrect specific intelligence, the February 12, 2002 attack never occurred. However, other attacks and plots in Yemen soon followed.

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