Mustafa Abdulkader Aabed al-Ansari ( ar, مصطفى عبدالقادر عابد الأنصاري, ) was a Saudi national who organized and died in the
2004 Yanbu attack
The 2004 Yanbu attack was an attack by gunmen against Westerners on May 1, 2004, in Yanbu' al Bahr, Saudi Arabia.
At least four militants used security passes to access a local petrochemical plant. Once on the grounds of the facility, they stor ...
in
Saudi Arabia
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. He was also the son-in-law of Yemeni
al Qaeda
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operative
Ahmad Mohammad Ali al-Hada
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Early life and Al ...
. During the 1990s he fought in
Afghanistan
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and
Bosnia
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.
February 12, 2002 Yemeni terror alert
On February 11, 2002, al-Ansari was named in a suspected Yemen plot, for which he was among 17 suspected terrorists added to the FBI's third major "wanted" list, the "
Seeking Information" list.
By February 2003, the FBI removed 6 suspects already jailed rearranged its wanted lists. al-Ansari was one of the remaining eleven Yemen plot suspects. By 2006, al-Ansari had been archived and removed from the FBI's current main wanted page, and were no longer included in the official count of suspects.
Whether foiled, aborted, or merely incorrect specific intelligence, the February 12, 2002 attack never occurred. However, other
attacks and plots in Yemen soon followed.
2004 Yanbu attack
Al-Ansari was killed together with the three other attackers during the
2004 Yanbu attack
The 2004 Yanbu attack was an attack by gunmen against Westerners on May 1, 2004, in Yanbu' al Bahr, Saudi Arabia.
At least four militants used security passes to access a local petrochemical plant. Once on the grounds of the facility, they stor ...
which he organized in Saudi Arabia on May 1, 2004.
References
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2004 deaths
Year of birth missing