Abdul Rahman Yasin Abdul Rahman Yasin ( ; born April 10 , 1960 ) 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 . " Biography . Yasin was born in Bloomington , Indiana , U . S . , 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 . Arrival in United States , 1992 . On June 21 , 1992 Yasin was able to use his American birth citizenship to obtain a US passport from the U . S . embassy in Amman , Jordan , and thus enter the United States . Recruited by Ramzi Yousef , he had acid burns on his legs and jeans 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 . Yasin said he was released after giving agents names and addresses , and went to Iraq . Return to Iraq , 1993 . In March , 1993 , Yasin boarded Royal Jordanian flight 262 to Amman , Jordan . From Amman , Abdul Rahman Yasin went on to Baghdad . In Baghdad , Iraq , Yasin lived freely for at least a year . Saddam Hussein ' s regime gave money and housing to Yasin . The Iraqi government later claimed he was arrested and put in prison ( see CBS Stahl interview , below ) . On October 10 , 2001 Yasin appeared on the initial list of the FBI ' s top 22 Most Wanted Terrorists , which was released to the public by President Bush . On several occasions , Iraq offered to turn Yasin over to the US government in exchange for lifting UN economic sanctions . Tariq Aziz , spokesman of Iraq , claimed that in the 1990s all Iraq wanted in return was a signed statement that Iraq had handed over Yasin . But reportedly the statement presented to the U . S . at the time contained lengthy wording essentially exonerating Iraqi involvement in the 1993 WTC attack . Nevertheless , Kenneth Pollack of the State Department stated that there was no CIA information tying Iraq into the 1993 WTC bombing . With Yasin reportedly being held as a prisoner in Hussein ' s Iraq , Leslie Stahl of CBS interviewed him there for a segment on 60 Minutes on May 23 , 2002 ( see below ) . Yasin appeared in prison pajamas and handcuffs . It was claimed that Iraq had held Yasin prisoner on the outskirts of Baghdad since 1994 . Yasin hasn ' t been seen or heard from since the 2002 prison interview . He was not located during the 2003 invasion of Iraq .