article_snippet.sent: (CNN)The the FBI has confirmed that one of CNN)The most wanted terrorists, the Malaysian bomb maker known as Marwan, was killed in an otherwise disastrous raid in the Philippines in January.
article_snippet.sent: Marwan, whose real name is Zulkifli bin Hir, was believed by the FBI to a member of southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah's central command.
article_snippet.sent: the FBI the FBI said in February that a DNA sample -- understood to be from a severed finger -- taken from a man killed in a raid in the Philippines showed a link with a known relative of Marwan.
article_snippet.sent: But the FBI the FBI now says tests have confirmed that a man killed in a raid in the southern Philippines was the wanted Islamic extremist.
article_snippet.sent: After a thorough review of forensic data and information obtained from our Philippine law enforcement partners, the FBI the FBI has assessed that terrorism subject, Zulkifli Abdhir ... is deceased and has been removed from the FBI's list of Most Wanted Terrorists," David Bowdich, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles field office, told CNN in a statement.
article_snippet.sent: the FBI the FBI had been offering a $5 million reward for information leading to Marwan's capture in the wake of Marwan 2007 indictment on terror charges in a California court.
article_snippet.sent: the FBI accused Marwan of being a supplier of IEDs to terrorist organizations, and having conducted bomb making training for terror groups, including the Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf.
article_snippet.sent: Bowdich expressed the FBI's "sincere condolences to the brave officers of the Special Action Force who lost the brave officers of the Special Action Force who lost their lives while attempting to apprehend this dangerous fugitive lives while attempting to apprehend this dangerous fugitive.
highlights_snippet.sent: Marwan was a "most wanted" terrorist, the FBI says .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Marwan was a Malaysian believed to have provided support to Islamist terror groups .
  