US offers reward of up to $5 million for Palestinian bomb maker indicted in 1982 bombing

US offers $5M reward for Palestinian bomb maker

NEW YORK — The U.S. State Department is offering a reward of up to $5 million for a Palestinian bomb maker suspected of targeting commercial airliners and aiding the Iraq insurgency.

Abu Ibrahim (ee-bruh-HEEM’) was indicted in the 1982 bombing of Pan Am Flight 830. It killed a 16-year-old boy and wounded more than a dozen other passengers as the plane headed to Honolulu from Tokyo.

Ibrahim’s real name is Husayn Muhammed al-Umari. He is also accused of a spate of bombings in the 1980s. He was born in Jaffa, in what was then Palestine.

The FBI has been trying to catch Ibrahim for decades.