11th Suspect in N.Y. Bombing Plot Arrested : Terrorism: Egyptian immigrant is found at motel in New Jersey. He is linked to alleged plans to blow up U.N. building and other landmarks.

An FBI SWAT team raided a seaside motel in the resort community of North Wildwood, N.J., late Thursday night and seized another suspect in the alleged plot to blow up the United Nations and three other New York City landmarks. He was being held without bail Friday pending arraignment in New York next week.

The arrest of Matarawy Mohammad Said Saleh, 37, an Egyptian immigrant who resided in Jersey City, N.J., brought to 11 the number of defendants in the bombing plot, which has also been linked to the explosion at the World Trade Center on Feb. 26. The trade center blast killed six people and injured more than 1,000.

Prosecutors charge that several of the defendants in the scheme to bomb the United Nations, FBI offices in Manhattan and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels were also involved in preparations for the attack on the trade center.

The complaint naming Saleh as a defendant alleges that he was present in a safehouse in Queens, N.Y., on June 23-24 while other suspects in the plot mixed bomb-making ingredients in 55-gallon yellow barrels. Prosecutors also charge that he discussed obtaining cars to assist in the bombings.

Taken into custody along with Saleh in North Wildwood was Ashraf Mohammed, 31, also a resident of Jersey City, who was accused of concealing a fugitive.

James Esposito, agent in charge of the Newark, N.J., office of the FBI, said that Mohammed tried to flee when he saw the federal agents. He said the suspect abducted a nearby child but was quickly stopped.

“He was not armed at the time, but he did attempt to flee,” Esposito said. “He picked up an 11-year-old child and attempted to run off. He was immediately arrested. The child was not harmed.”

In Washington, the State Department on Friday offered a $2-million reward for information leading to the capture of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who is a principal figure and a fugitive in the trade center bombing and who carries an Iraqi passport. Law enforcement officials said he fled the United States to the Middle East shortly after the explosion.

Michael McCurry, a State Department spokesman, said that Yousef should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.

“The Department of State is offering a reward of up to $2 million for information that leads to the arrest anywhere in the world of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef,” McCurry said. “Yousef has demonstrated willingness to undertake acts of international terrorism and is likely to engage in such acts in the future unless he is brought into custody.”

Yousef entered the United States last September, arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on a Pakistan International Airlines flight from Karachi. He carried an Iraqi passport but no visa. He told immigration officers he had bribed his way aboard the flight and wanted to apply for political asylum, a claim that automatically invokes a hearing.

Another defendant in the trade center bombing, Mohammad Ahmad Ajaj, also traveled on the same flight. He carried a false Swedish passport and was arrested at the airport. Ajaj was sent to the Raybrook Correctional Facility in Upstate New York for six months before he was released.

Immigration officials at the airport confiscated 12 manuals that they said contained bomb-making information from Ajaj, a Jerusalem-born Palestinian. Laboratory tests made after the trade center bombing showed Yousef’s fingerprints on two of the manuals, investigators said.

In an earlier indictment, filed in New York, Saleh was identified only as “Wahid,” and he was listed as at large. But his fugitive status ended when heavily armed FBI agents, backed up by local police raided his room about 10 p.m. Thursday at the Sea Wolf Inn in North Wildwood.

Authorities did not disclose how they discovered that Saleh was in the resort community, about 115 miles south of New York City.

Prosecutors said FBI agents had interviewed Mohammed recently and had informed him that they were searching for Saleh in connection with the alleged plot to plant bombs.

But prosecutors said Mohammed apparently ignored the agents’ warning and with Saleh checked into the motel, posing as vacationers.

Both men, dressed in T-shirts, shorts and sandals, were brought into federal court in Camden, N.J., on Friday. Their hands and feet were manacled.

Saleh’s lawyer, Richard Coughlin, a public defender, said his client had not eaten since the previous night and asked that he be fed. The lawyer also said that Saleh had abrasions and bruises on his back and requested they be photographed.

U.S. Magistrate Robert B. Kugler agreed to both requests. Saleh waived extradition to New York during the court proceeding and was placed in the custody of U.S. marshals. Mohammed, who did not waive extradition, was held for a hearing on Tuesday.

Mary Jo White, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said it was expected that Saleh would be arraigned in New York some time next week. If convicted on bombing conspiracy charges, he faces a possible penalty of 15 years in prison. On the charge of concealing a fugitive, Mohammed faces a possible penalty of five years.