DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A U.S. missile strike in Pakistan killed one of the FBI’s most- wanted terrorists, a man suspected in a deadly plane hijacking with a $5 million bounty on his head, three Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday.
The death would be the latest victory for the CIA- led missile campaign against militant targets in the insurgent-riddled tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. Another strike Thursday is thought to have missed Pakistan’s Taliban chief.
The intelligence officials said a Jan. 9 missile strike in the North Waziristan tribal region killed Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim. The FBI’s website lists him as a Palestinian with possible Lebanese citizenship and a member of the Abu Nidal Palestinian terrorist group.
Rahim was involved in the 1986 hijacking of a Pan Am jet during a stop in Karachi, Pakistan, that killed 20 people, including two Americans. Rahim was tried and convicted in Pakistan, but he and three accomplices apparently were released in 2008. The Associated Press
