FBI suspect in Wales bombing ‘for years’

One of America’s most wanted men arrested in north Wales after more than 20 years on the run may have been there for many years, possibly using an alias, says the agency involved in his arrest.

The British National Crime Agency (NCA) told the BBC that 46-year-old Daniel Andreas San Diego was arrested on Monday.

North Wales Police said he was at a remote location above Maenan in the Conwy Valley, County Conwy.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said it believed he was involved in the 2003 bombing of two office buildings in San Francisco, California, and now faces extradition to the United States.

The FBI accused him of being an “animal rights extremist.”

The first attack occurred in August 2003, consisting of two explosions an hour apart on the campus of a biotechnology company, followed a month later by a nail bomb at a nutritional products company, according to the FBI.

He became the first “domestic terrorist” added to the agency’s most-wanted list, saying he “should be considered armed and dangerous.”

The FBI also said he had “seamanship and had traveled around the world.”

Michael J. Heimbach, deputy director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, said the suspect committed “domestic acts of terrorism planned and likely intended to take lives, destroy property and cause economic hardship to the companies involved.”

A reward of $250,000 (£199,000) has been offered for information leading to his arrest, with the possibility of him living in Costa Rica.

The agency reportedly last saw him in 2003, when FBI agents were near downtown San Francisco.

“He parked his car, got out of his vehicle and started walking down the street and if I’m not mistaken, he walked into the Bart (train) station and that was the last we saw of him,” David Johnson, an FBI agent, said in 2013.

Andrew Black, a former FBI agent, said the case was “very interesting” to the bureau at the time.

“We recently resolved the issue The Unabomber investigationand the bombings were a major problem for the FBI trying to solve them,” he told CBS News.

The FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list was created by then-President George W. Bush in October 2001, a few weeks after the attack. September 11 attacks in New York and Washington.

President Bush said the list would “shine the light of justice” on terrorists who he said would “try to operate in the shadows.”

“Terrorism has a face and today we reveal it to the world,” he said.

There were 22 people on the first list, including: Osama bin Ladenwho likely ordered the 9/11 attacks and was killed by US forces in Pakistan in 2011.

In 2013, Joanne Chesimard, a convicted assassin and member of the Black Liberation Army, also known as Assata Shakur, was first woman added to the list.

They currently exist There are 24 people on the list.