The next year, U.S. military personnel planned to seize him off a ship in Doha, Qatar, but the operation was called off. On October 10, 2001, Mughniyah appeared on the initial list of the FBI’s top 22 Most Wanted Terrorists, which was released to the public by President Bush, with a reward of up to $5 million offered for information leading to his arrest. The Israeli government also made several alleged attempts to assassinate Mughniyah. Imad Mughniyah was killed on February 12, 2008 by a car bomb blast around 11:00 pm local time in the Kfar Suseh neighborhood of Damascus, Syria.