Story highlights A man killed in a raid in the Philippines in January was a "most wanted" terrorist, the FBI says

Marwan was a Malaysian believed to have provided support to Islamist terror groups

44 elite Philippine commandos were killed in the raid on his hideout last month

(CNN) The FBI has confirmed that one of its most wanted terrorists, the Malaysian bomb maker known as Marwan, was killed in an otherwise disastrous raid in the Philippines in January.

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.

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 southern Philippines showed a link with a known relative of Marwan.

But the FBI now says tests have confirmed that the dead man was the wanted Islamic extremist.

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