Abdul Rahman Yasin

Abdul Rahman Yasin عبد الرحمن يس
Abdul Rahman Yasin in 2002
Born	(1960-04-10) April 10, 1960 (age 57) Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.

Abdul Rahman Yasin (Arabic: عبد الرحمن يس ‎‎; born April 10, 1960) is an American fugitive helped make the bombs used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack. Yasin is of Iraqi heritage and grew up in Baghdad. He has been characterized in the American media as "the only participant in the first attempt to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993 who was never caught." Yasin's whereabouts remain unknown.

Yasin was born in Bloomington, Indiana, where his father, originally from Iraq, went to study for a PhD. Yasin is therefore an American citizen. Shortly after his birth, Yasin's family moved back to Iraq. According to university records, Said Taha Yasin, an Iraqi, attended Indiana University in 1952/53, and also from 1956–60. Yasin's FBI report states that he is epileptic.

In 1992, Yasin was able to use his American birth citizenship to obtain a US passport and thus enter the United States.

Recruited by Ramzi Yousef, he had acid burns on his legs from bomb chemicals.

Soon following investigation of the attack on February 26, 1993, Yasin was picked up by the FBI on March 4, 1993, the same day as the arrest of Mohammed A. Salameh, in a sweep of sites associated with Salameh. Yasin was found in the apartment in Jersey City, New Jersey, that he was sharing with his mother.

Yasin was taken to New Jersey FBI headquarters in Newark, where he was reportedly very cooperative. Agents had Yasin retrace where and how the WTC bomb had been built in New York and New Jersey.