Infamous Terrorist Flees to Lebanon

A master bomb maker who once targeted commercial airliners and was suspected of aiding the Iraq insurgency has fled to Lebanon, an FBI official has confirmed. There is information that 73-year-old Abu Ibrahim was reportedly in Tripoli, a city in northwest Lebanon, the official said earlier this week. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation continues.

Ibrahim, a devout Sunni who was born in Tripoli, is suspected of carrying out more than two dozen attacks on mainly American, Israeli, and Jewish targets in a career that spans decades. He was indicted in the 1982 bombing of Pan Am Flight 830, an explosion that killed a 16-year-old boy and wounded more than a dozen passengers. The FBI has been looking to catch Ibrahim for decades and has recently increased its efforts to arrest him. (More Abu Ibrahim stories.)