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Dr. Paul L. Williams
The Search for Adnan El Shukrijumah
February 6, 2008
FBI Director Robert
Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft have called Adnan el-Shukrijumah
"the next Mohammed Atta,” who represents "a clear and imminent danger to
all Americans.”
Shukrijumah’s face has
appeared on the front pages of newspapers and every televised news
outlet throughout the United States and Canada.
A special office for
information that might lead to his arrest -- replete with a 24 hour
hotline -- has been set up in Miami, Florida.
Federal investigators
have combed South and Central America with the hope of gleaning a
scintilla of evidence that might shed light on his whereabouts. They
even established an elaborate sting operation in Guyana, Trinidad, and
New York (the JFK plot) to snag the elusive fugitive -- but the
operation only resulted in the creation of a virulent terrorist
organization south of the border.
The Justice Department
has placed a $5 million reward for any information leading to Adnan’s
apprehension, and the same bounty for each of his alleged accomplices:
Amer el-Maati, Jaber A. Elbaneh, Anas al-Liby, and Abderraouf Jdey.
But if you assemble a
team of bounty hunters and manage to collar Adnan el-Shukrijumah and his
terrorist cronies, you will be hard-pressed to turn them over to law
enforcement officials, let alone to collect the aggregate $25 million.
The U.S. Department of Justice, even after posting rewards, setting up
hotlines, and issuing BOLOs ("Be-on-the-Lookout” alerts) has failed to
issue criminal warrants for their arrest. This means that the bounty
hunters would have to leave Adnan and his friends strapped to lawn
chairs, since members of state and local police departments remain
without authorization to detain or question them, let alone take them
into custody.
This oversight is
mind-boggling. Adnan el-Shukrijumah has worked with Mohammad Atta and
the other 9/11 operatives; he has masterminded a plan to launch a
nuclear attack on American soil; he has attended leading al Qaeda
gatherings, including the Waziristan Summit of 2004; he has conspired
with Jose Padilla and others to blow up bridges and infrastructures in
New York City; and the search for his present whereabouts is littered
with corpses, including that of prominent Guyanese businessman Farouk
Razac. Obtaining the necessary warrants would constitute the perfunctory
matter of submitting a request to a federal judiciary. But this basic
procedural step was not undertaken by the U.S. Attorney General, the FBI
Director, or any other official within the Justice Department.
Federal law enforcement
officials explain this oversight by insisting that the issuance of a
BOLO (Be-on-the-Lookout) and a warrant for Adnan as a material witness
is all that is required to collar Adnan. They point out that suspected
terrorists, under the guidelines of the Patriot Act, need not be
fugitives who have been indicted by grand juries in U.S. District
Courts. This is all well and good if Adnan if cornered within the
U.S. But, if he is
sitting in a café in Canada or Mexico, neither the BOLO nor the warrant
as a material witness will be sufficient to take him into custody and to
extradite him for questioning by the FBI or Homeland Security.
"A material witness
warrant has no weight at all in Canada,” explains a retired RCMP
official who opts to remain anonymous "Our law enforcement officials
cannot do anything unless there is a criminal offense that is
extraditable.”
The failure to obtain
arrest warrants remains coupled with other oversights of equally
staggering proportions. On October 31, 2006, members of a
counter-terrorist research unit spotted Adnan el-Shukrijumah on the
campus of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. They dutifully
reported the sighting to the FBI and CSIS. At this writing, over one
year later, they remain waiting for a response.
Similarly, a former
Israeli intelligence official claims to have seen Shukrijumah on several
occasions at a gas station in Toronto -- less than an hour’s drive from
Hamilton. The Israeli says that he contacted FBI officials at four
different locations only to be encountered by bureaucratic indifference.
The sighting remains to be investigated.
On January 25, 2007, a
witness reported to Canadian and US officials that Adnan was living in
an apartment complex in southern Ontario and that he made daily visits
to the regional airport. This tip also went unheeded despite concerns
the witnesses (some of whom resided in the complex) expressed about
their safety.
In October 2007, a
former member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a Canadian police
official, a computer tracker who served with Canada’s Internal Revenue
Service, a licensed private investigator, and a team of journalist
managed after months of intense effort to pinpoint Adnan’s present
whereabouts. The task was accomplished by tracing e-mails from friends
and family members, internet postings from Adnan that were made from
various locations in the vicinity of his present address, newly acquired
family photos and communiqués, and, of course, actual sightings.
The information was
conveyed to high-ranking political figures, military officials, and
federal investigators -- all of which expressed scant interest in the
findings, and none of whom sought to validate the data. In short, it was
cast into the proverbial black-hole that represents the core of U.S.
intelligence.
And yet, the threat
posed by Adnan el-Shukrijumah remains unaltered. He remains, according
to British, Saudi, Pakistani, and Israeli intelligence sources (and even
FBI bureaucrats), a "one-man terror cell” -- an al Qaeda operative,
trained not only to build radiological weapons and to maintain tactical
nukes but also to detonate such devices within major American cities
without a logistical backup crew. This same claim has been verified by
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the highest ranking al-Qaeda official to be
taken into custody, Abu Zubaydah, another leading al-Qaeda op in federal
custody, and dozens of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Introducing Adnan
For starters, he is a
chameleon. Adnan possesses an uncanny ability to blend into a crowd, to
alter his looks, and to assume a multitude of identities. He is the
proverbial Mr. Cellophane. Few things about him indicate his Islamic
orientation. He is often clean-shaven and never wears a long shirt or
chews a toothpick. He has been known to have a beer (like an average
American Joe), to smoke a Marlboro, and to carry rosary beads in his
pocket. He has posed as an Italian-American, a Mexican-American, a
Canadian, a Saudi, a Jamaican, an Arab, and a Latino from Trinidad. He
stands somewhere between 5’4” and 5’6”; weighs 140 pounds; and suffers
from severe asthma. He has black hair, dark brown eyes, an olive
complexion, a mole on one cheek and a very prominent Mediterranean
proboscis. A key distinguishing feature is a scar on the left side of
his face below and forward of his earlobe.
Adnan is fluent in
English, Spanish, Urdu, and Arabic. He is a trained pilot and a computer
whiz. But, his central area of interest, training and expertise is
nuclear engineering.
The Family Tree
Adnan gives proof to
the adage that a rotten apple never falls far from a diseased tree. His
father Gulshair was born in Guyana, where his grandfather Mohammad Jumah
ran a general store. One of eleven children, Gulshair developed an
interest in Arabic and began working as a tailor. At the age of 32, he
moved to Cairo, where he studied at the radical al-Azbar University, and
then Medina, where he enrolled at al-Madina al Manawarah (The Islamic
University of Medina) and became stepped in the fanatical writings of
Ibn Taymiyah and Sayyid Qutb.
In Saudi Arabia,
Gulshair taught at several madrassahs, and, at the age of 42, met
and married Mareed Zubrah Abu Akmed. Mareed, having just celebrated her
14th birthday was barely pubescent. Two years later, on
August 4, 1975, Mareed gave birth to their first child Adnan. Three more
children would be born to the couple before the family moved to
Trinidad, where Gulshair received a monthly stipend of $1,500 from the
Saudi government to spread the radical doctrine of Wahhabism.
[1]
Bugaboo In Brooklyn
In 1986, Gulshair moved
to Brooklyn where he became the imam of the newly created Majid Nur
a-Islam mosque on 21 Church Street. Here he preached death to the West
and recruited young blacks from New York’s mean streets. Members of his
congregation came to include Abdul Rasheed and Clement Rodney
Hampton-El, who were convicted in 1996 of plotting to blow up the
Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, the George Washington Bridge, and the
United Nations building.
In 1990, Gulshair
established close ties with blind sheikh Omar Abel Rahman, who was
serving as imam of the Farouq Mosque at 554 Atlantic Avenue, several
blocks from Majid Nur a-Islam. On the second floor of the Farouq Mosque,
al Qaeda had opened an office under the name of the al-Kifah Refugee
Center. It became one of Gulshair’s favorite haunts. When Rahman was
taken into custody as the alleged architect of the 1993 bombing of the
World Trade Center, Gulshair served as the blind sheikh’s translator and
chief character witness. He also served as a character witness for
Clement Rodney Hampton-El, whom he defended by
stating that the defendant had fought in Afghanistan to "help his
brothers, the Muslims” and that Hampton-El "was prepared to give his
life for that, and that does not mean he was involved in any acts of
terror…”
[2]
In
Brooklyn, Gulshair re-established ties with Bilal Philips, a Canadian
convert to Islam, whom he had tutored in Saudi Arabia. Philips, an
un-indicted c-conspirator in the WTC bombing, was credited with
converting more than 3,000 US soldiers to Islam by setting up "tent
revivals” in Riyadh during the Persian Gulf War. Returning to his home
in Toronto, he became a favorite speaker on the Islam circuit by
advancing the argument that Friday was the best day to conduct a
beheading.
[3]
Under The Saudi Sun
While Gulshair was
developing ties with radical black Muslims in Brooklyn, Adnan was living
with his maternal grandparents in Saudi Arabia. He completed his
elementary and secondary school training in Medina and, like his father,
taught at local madrassahs. By 1991, he had attracted the attention of
the mujahadeen, newly returned to Saudi Arabia from Afghanistan,
received training in guerilla warfare at an al-Qaeda camp in Khost, and
assumed the bayat -- the oath of allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
Adnan was sent to Yemen
where his paternal grandfather had been born. He was given a code-name
(Mohammed Sher Khan) and received training in special operations,
including flight lessons. Eventually, Adnan became so adept at aviation
that he earned the nickname "Jafar al-Tayar” ("Jafar the Pilot”).
The Family In
Florida
In 1995, Adnan, now a
full-fledged jihadi, rejoined his family in Brooklyn as a new
missionary to the land of the free and the home of the brave, with a
monthly stipend -- similar to that received by his father -- from the
Saudi government. The reunited Shukrijumah clan now set out for sunny
Florida, where Gulshair became the imam of the Masjid al-Hyrah Mosque in
Miramar. Gulshair also came to serve as the spiritual leader of the Boca
Raton Islamic Center (BRIC), where he established a close friendship
with BRIC imam Dr. Ibrahim Dremali.
[4]
Dremali, a professor of
geology at Broward Community College, shared Gulshair’s militant
fundamentalism. The two attended a rally where
Israeli flags were burned and slogans, such as "With jihad we’ll claim
our land, Zionist blood will wet the sand,” were shouted. On this
occasion, Dremali advised the crowd "not to be sad for those who were
martyred and to not be afraid to die for what they believe in” -- a
clear reference to suicide bombers.
[5]
In Florida,
Adnan received legal permanent residency status -- a "green card,” which
permitted him to acquire a federal passport. He never became a
naturalized American citizen. In the course of the next five years,
Adnan would obtain additional passports from Canada, Trinidad, Yemen,
and Saudi Arabia.
Early Warning Signs
On October 12, 1997,
Adnan became a blip on the radar screen when screams came from the
Shukrijumah squat stucco house at SW 27th Street and the neighbors
summoned the Miramar police. The younger siblings, Officer David Goetz
wrote in the police report, had ‘’locked themselves in the bedrooms to
protect themselves from their brother, Adnan, who had come home and
found clothes laying all over the place, so he hit them.’’
Adnan’s 13-year-old sister Aida had a bite
wound on her arm, according to the report, and Areeza, his youngest
sister, had been struck in the face. Zubrah, the mother, Goetz added,
‘’conveyed to me that her son being male, he was expected to carry the
role of disciplinarian.” [6]
During this
time, Adnan taught Arabic at his father’s mosque and became engaged in
raising funds the Global Relief Fund (GRF), a front for terrorist
organizations. GRF, according to the Treasury Department, was
responsible for funding the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya
and Tanzania. He enrolled as an engineering/computer science major at
Broward Community College, where Ibrahim Dremali served as his academic
advisor. Adnan also made several trips to Saudi Arabia where he met with
his al Qaeda mentors Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and terror financier Ramzi
Binalshibh.
[7]
The Jihad Club
Spreading the fire of
jihad, Adnan attended services at the Masjid al-Iman mosque in Fort
Lauderdale, where he became acquainted with a host of wannabe
terrorists, including Jose Padilla, who planned to detonate a
radiological bomb in midtown Manhattan; Imran Mandhai, who was convicted
of attempting to blow up nuclear power plants in southern Florida;
Moessa Shuyeb Jokham, who was arrested for plotting terrorist attacks
against Jewish community centers and businesses; and Hakki Akksoy, who
was jailed for ten years when a cache of deadly explosives was found in
his home.
[8]
Questioned about the
aspiring terrorists, Sofian Abdelaziz Zakout, director of the American
Muslim Association and a friend of the Shukrijumah family, said: "I saw
[Adnan el Shukrijumah, Padilla and Mandhai] at different times in
different mosques, and I always said hello. Does that make me a
terrorist?”
[9]
Zakout’s
statement contains more than a hint of irony. He had served as the Vice
President of a now defunct "charity” called Health Resource Center
Palestine which served to solicit funding for the Islamic Association of
Palestine (IAP), a virulently anti-Semitic group that serves terrorist
groups. "I am in support of the Hamas movement,” Nihad Awad, the former
public relations director of the IAP, announced to the press. The Health
Resource Center Palestine also listed Ibrahim Dremali as its Gaza
coordinator. Both Dremali and Zakkout testified as character witnesses
on behalf of Adham Hassoun, who was accused of using Benevolence
International as a front for funding al-Qaeda.
[10]
Another Alarm Unheeded
Adnan produced another
blip on the crime monitor in March, 2001, when FBI special agents in
Miami launched an investigation of the Darul Uloom Mosque in Pembroke
Pines. The agents became interested in the activities of Imran Mandhai,
a member of the mosque and another student at Broward Community College,
who had stated his intention to create a jihad cell that would consist
of 25 or 30 men, including Adnan el Shukrijumah. The cell, Mandhai
maintained, would target electric substations, Jewish institutions, a
National Guard armory, even Mount Rushmore. "It was no secret that [Adnan]
was pretty radical,” says a federal law enforcement source, "and that
Mandhai thought he would be interested in what they were doing.”
[11]
But Shukrijumah was too
slick and smart to become involved in the creation of a cell with a
loudmouth like Mandhai. He declined to join their plans for jihad,
correctly surmising that Mandhai already had attracted too much
attention. But his name had been mentioned, and the federal
investigators discovered that Shukrijumah had lied on his green-card
application regarding a prior arrest. For this reason, a confidential
report with cursory information in his name was opened at FBI
headquarters. The record was filed and quickly forgotten.
[12]
Adnan Unites With
Atta
By 2000,
Adnan had formed a fast friendship with two new Muslim arrivals to
southern Florida -- Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, who began to
attend Gulshair’s mosque. Adnan made arrangements for Atta and Shehhi to
receive flight training at Hoffman Aviation in Venice. This site was
ideal. 80% of the students at Hoffman were foreign nationals -- many
from the Middle East. It was a facility that served Yeslam bin Laden,
Osama’s brother, and his employees. It was also a place where Atta and
Shehhi could obtain student visas to prolong their stay in the US. The
two 9/11 ops registered on July 3, 2000.
Following
the training at Hoffman, Adnan accompanied Atta and Shehhi to the Airman
Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma, where Atta and Shehhi signed up for
advanced training on commercial jet airliners.
[13]
In Norman, Adnan bunked up with Shehhi at the apartment of Majahid Abdul
Quaadir Menepta. Menepta (Melvin Lattimore), an African-American convert
to Islam. Menepta, who was finishing his studies in biochemistry at The
University of Oklahoma, was a member of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, a terrorist
agency with ties to al-Qaeda that had established paramilitary training
compounds in rural areas throughout the United States. Also living in
Menepta’s apartment was Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called "20th
terrorist” of 9/11. During this time, Adnan appears to have met and
befriended Wael Rabeh and Muhanned Debeh, two students from The
University of Oklahoma with ties to an al-Qaeda cell in Toronto.
(Editor's 2012 Update: Wael Rabeh, now a professor in biochemistry at
New York University in Abu Dhabi, adamantly disputes any connection with el Shukrijumah, al Qaeda or jihadism.)
The Lure Of Canada
Southern Ontario
now begins to loom large in the story of the quest. Menepta would head
off to Toronto in the wake of 9/11 to further his studies into
biochemistry. Toronto was also the headquarters of Dr. Bilal Philips,
Gulshair’s old friend, and the mission to convert African-Americans into
rabid Wahhabis. It was also a favorite place for the Shukrijumahs to
visit. The family album contains photos of Gulshair and his smiling clan
in front of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in the heart of
downtown Toronto.
Moreover,
McMaster University in Hamilton -- less than an hour’s drive from
Toronto -- housed a five megawatt nuclear reactor, one of the largest
for educational purposes in North America, and boosted an engineering
faculty that consisted of a disproportionate number of Egyptian
nationals with degrees from the University of Cairo and the University
of Alexandria -- whose schools of engineering remained under the tight
control of the Trade Union of Engineers, a stronghold of the Muslim
Brotherhood.
[14]
It presumably would serve as a magnet for any jihadi interested
in launching a nuclear attack on a major American city.
Canada
offered more allure for terrorists and terrorists’ wannabes. Anyone who
arrives in the land of the maple leaf and requests political asylum (for
any reason} is granted immediate entry and temporary residency status
with no questions asked by customs officials and no documentation
required by law enforcement officials. Forty thousand "refugees” -- many
from terror-sponsoring countries -- have entered Canada during the past
decade by making this request. None are screened for criminality,
security, or health problems and even a bogus passport constitutes an
entrance ticket. The new arrivals are simply given dates for hearings
that may not take place for eighteen months.
[15]
Meanwhile, In Miami
On January
10, 2001, Adnan was seen in the company of Atta and Ziad Jarrah, yet
another 9/11 operative, at the Miami District Immigration Office, where
Atta and Jarrah applied for visa extensions.
[16]
On May 2, 2001, he accompanied Atta to the Lake Lauderdale office of the
Florida Department of Highway Safety, where Atta produced his Egyptian
passport and an I-94 immigration form, took a driving test, and received
his license.
In his
spare time, Adnan established a website appropriately titled "Master
Arabic,” so that his father Gulshair could discover a new market for
his tapes and books. On the site Adnan proclaimed: "My father is the
narrator of a system designed to take you from as basic as the alphabet
to constructing words to conversation to Arabic grammer [sic]… Go ahead
and click your way to mastering Arabic.”
The
Gulshair website contained a guestbook where friends and admirers of the
radical imam could post their encomiums. One of the first to sign the
book was Bilal Philips, who wrote: "Salaam alaykum Ibn Shukri, Mabrook
on the website and special salaams to your father and prayers for his
good spiritual and physical health. He was one of my first teachers in
Arabic and is a dear friend, though geography and world politics has
separated us. Tell him that, as always, I love him for the sake of
Allah. Was salaam, Bilal.”
From Panama To Pakistan
In April 2001, Adnan
spent 10 days in Panama, where he met with al Qaeda officials to assist
in the planning of 9-11. He went on to stay with his relatives in
Charlieville on the island of Trinidad.
[17]
He also visited the Darul Uloom Islamic Center in Cunupia, a 45 minute
drive from Port-of Spain, Trinidad’s capital, and made a trip to
Georgetown in nearby Guyana, where he allegedly received funds from
Swiss House Cambio, a money exchange owned by Faouk Razac.
Razac represented the
Muslim godfather in Guyana. He not only ran an elaborate death squad but
also engaged in such nefarious activities as money laundering, arms
running, and drug trafficking, most specifically, the cocaine route from
Guinea, Trinidad, and Tobago to Canada. As a radical Sunni, Razac became
affiliated with Jamaat ul-Muslimeen, Trinidad’s homegrown
terrorist group, and served to secure funding for jihadi ventures
Returning to the US,
Adnan visited New York (including the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn),
Washington, DC and the infamous Dar al-Hijrah Mosque in Falls Church,
Virginia), Chicago, and Canada, where he made contact with Abderraouf
Jdey, the head of a large al Qaeda cell in Montreal, and Abdelazziz
Boussora, another member of the Montreal cell and a trained pilot. The
purpose of the meetings with Jdey and Boussora was to arrange a second
wave of attacks on US soil.
In June, he traveled to
a Pakistan for advanced training in explosives under Muhammed Atef, the
co-founder of al-Qaeda who was killed in Afghanistan during the first
wave of Operation Enduring Freedom. At the training camp on the
outskirts of Kandahar, Adnan met Jose Padilla, his friend from Florida.
But the two quickly got on each other’s nerves, and Padilla was forced
to admit that he couldn’t work with Adnan on a mission.
[18]
The Nuclear Mission
In Pakistan,
Shukrijumah became singled out by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to spearhead
the next great attack on America – a nuclear attack that would take
place simultaneously in seven U.S. cities (New York, Boston, Miami,
Houston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Washington D.C.), leaving millions
dead and the richest and most powerful nation on earth in ashes.
[19]
To prepare for this
mission, a team of al-Qaeda operatives reportedly were sent by Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed to McMaster University in order to gain knowledge of
nuclear technology and to obtain access to the reactor. Along with Adnan,
the team consisted of Anas al Liby, an engineer from Libya and member of
the al-Qaeda high command; Jaber A. Elbaneh, a Yemeni national and
naturalized American citizen who worked closely with the Lackawanna Six
domestic cell near Buffalo, New York; and Amer el Matti, a Canadian
national and licensed pilot. Another visitor to the campus, according to
several sources, was Abderraouf Jdey from the Montreal cell.
At McMaster, Adnan
purportedly kept to himself, made few new friends or acquaintances, kept
strictly to his studies, and left the facility at the same time as his
colleagues.
[20]
He also managed to obtain employment at the reactor -- allegedly as a
guide.
[21]
Adnan’s "normal’ behavior on the Hamilton campus, a source said, gave
him entry to places where dangerous materials were stored without
raising undue suspicion. Bit by bit, the al-Qaeda operative allegedly
managed to pilfer approximately 180 pounds of nuclear material from the
university -- enough to build several radiological bombs.
[22]
According to Debka, an
internet outlet for Israeli intelligence news, Shukrijumah was under
surveillance by Canadian officials in early October 2003, when he
suddenly stopped attending classes and failed to show up for work. His
disappearance aroused no concern, the sources say, until a few days
later when the nuclear material was reported missing.
[23]
Jayne Johnson, a
spokesperson for McMaster University, declined to comment on the reports
of Shukrijumah and the other al-Qaeda agents at the school. Other
McMaster officials denied that any al Qaeda agents were on campus and
that any nuclear or radiological material was missing from the campus.
But witnesses have verified Shukrijumah’s presence in Hamilton and the
school, according to several sources, has experienced radiological
"leakage.”
[24]
Reliable sources have confirmed that Adnan made use of the internet
facilities at McMaster as late as October 2007.
Moreover, Adnan’s stay
at McMaster allegedly was facilitated by Dremali, his mentor at Broward
Community College. Dremali had formed associations with fellow Egyptian
engineers at McMaster and allegedly retained an affiliation with a
clandestine club in Ontario that had been formed, in part, to assist
newly arrived Arabs in the acculturation process. (The connection
between Adnan and Dremali remains to be fully investigated by the FBI.
In 2005, Dremali left his teaching position at Broward to become the
imam of a mosque in Des Moines, Iowa. He allegedly also left his wife
Lamyaa who now resides at in Colombia, Kentucky).
In an interview
pertinent to this report, Hamid Mir confirmed that he had received
verification that Anas al-Liby was at McMaster and that Liby had been
instrumental in the removal of radiological/nuclear material from the
reactor. Mir further testified that nuclear weapons and materials had
been forward deployed by al-Qaeda to the United States.
[25]
Despite Mir’s stature among journalist as the only reporter to interview
Osama bin Laden in the wake of 9/11, federal officials have neglected to
seek out the bases of his claims.
The Unanswered
Questions
Upon investigating the
matter, Debka raised the following questions concerning Shukrijumah at
McMaster and mind-boggling vanishing act:
A) Why were there no
agents observing the subject inside the reactor? These sources did not
disclose which security agencies were responsible for the surveillance.
B) Who gave
Shukrijumah, a Saudi Arabian under suspicion, access to the reactor? And
how is it that no one noticed increasing amounts of nuclear or
radiological materials were disappearing over a period of months?
C) How was
Shukrijumah able to give his watchers the slip?
D) Was the subject
tipped off by an inside source in the U. S. or Canadian security
services?
[26]
Upon their departure
from Canada, Adnan and his terrorist friends made their way to Buffalo
where they may have been harbored by some members of the notorious
Lackawanna (LA) Mosque. Jaber A. Elbaneh was a member of the infamous
Lackawanna Six, who provided material support to al-Qaeda, and members
of the Elbaneh family served in positions of leadership at the LA
Mosque. It is also alleged that Adnan and his accomplices received
monetary and logistical support from Mohammed Albanna, who managed to
escape under the radar of the bust of the Lackawanna Six.
The Pocket Litter
In the wake of
Operation Enduring Freedom (the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan), CIA
and military intelligence officials discovered the reoccurrence of the
names of Jaffar al Tayyar ("Jafer the Pilot”) and Mohammed Sher Mohammed
Khan in "pocket litter" – documents and scraps taken from prisoners and
dead al Qaeda soldiers.
[27]
In May 2002, U.S. intelligence and military officials starting asking a
pressing question to al Qaeda detainees who were being interrogated at
foreign prisons and secret CIA and military facilities abroad. "Whom,”
the officials asked, "would al Qaeda pick to lead the next big attack
against U.S. targets?” Intelligence sources told
U.S. News and World Reports
that several of the detainees coughed up the same answer: "Jaffar al
Tayyar."
[28]
The detainees said they had encountered "the Pilot" during al Qaeda
training exercises in Afghanistan. Intelligence officers presented
photos of hundreds of suspected al Qaeda operatives to the detainees.
Several identified an individual who bore a resemblance to Adnan el
Shukrijumah. But the resemblance was not reality, and it would take
months before the FBI and CIA teams, with their sophisticated equipment
and state-of-the-art search engines, would realize it. "We were pursuing
a lead," says one official, "that in the end turned out to be a dead
end. We found out we were after the wrong person."
[29]
Indeed, the teams might still be searching for the wrong suspects and
hitting dead-ends, if not for the fact that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was
captured, quite by accident, in Karachi, Pakistan March 1, 2003.
The Plot Revealed
After days of
interrogation, coupled with severe sleep deprivation, Mohammed told U.S.
officials that bin Laden was planning to create a "nuclear hell storm"
in America.
[30]
Unlike other attacks, the terrorist chief said, the chain of command for
the nuclear attack answered directly to bin Laden, al-Zawahiri, and a
mysterious scientist called "Dr. X." Mohammed later admitted that "Dr.
X" was Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani father of the Islamic bomb
and the godfather of modern nuclear proliferation. He further confessed
that the field commander for this operation was a naturalized American
citizen whom he also referred to as Mohammed Sher Mohammed Khan and "Jafer
al Tayyar" ("Jafer the Pilot").
[31]
Both names are aliases of Adnan el Shukrijumah.
Khalid Mohammed went on
to say that Adnan represents a "single-cell” -- a lone agent capable of
launching a solo nuclear or radiological attack on a major American
city. The news of such a cell reportedly startled U.S. officials who
assumed that al Qaeda cells contained several members who were supported
by broad logistical back-up crews.
[32]
On March 21, 2003,
Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller issued a
BOLO ("be-on-the-lookout") alert for Shukrijumah, Amer el-Maati, and
Abderraouf Jdey. Four other suspected Islamic terrorists were added to
the Seeking Information list: Ahmed Kalfan Ghailani (a.k.a., "Foopie"),
who took part in the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania; Ahmed
Khalfan Ghailani, another participant in the bombings; Adam Yahiye
Gadahn (a.k.a., Adam Pearlman), a Jewish convert to Islam who grew up on
a goat ranch in Riverside County, California; and Aafia Siddiqui, who
received a biology degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
penned a doctoral thesis on neurological science at Brandeis University.
[33]
Siddiqui, a native of
Pakistan, looms of importance in the search. She worked closely with
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as a "fixer,” the central al-Qaeda operative who
supported money and logistical support to Adnan and his associates in
southern Florida. She also provided monthly payments to Gulshair. The
money for the father and son, interesting to note, came from the Saudi
embassy.
[34]
'Demanding, Rude,
And Obnoxious'
Several days after the
BOLO was issued, Adnan and Jdey were spotted at a Denny's restaurant in
Avon, Colo., where one ordered a chicken sandwich and a salad. Samuel
Mac, the restaurant manager, described them as "demanding, rude and
obnoxious."
[35]
They told Mac they were from Iran and were driving from New York to the
West Coast.
Upon calling the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., Mac said the
agent who answered the telephone said he had to call the bureau’s Denver
office and declined to take down any information. When Mac called the
Denver office of the FBI, he said he was shuttled to voice mail because
"all the agents were busy.”
[36]
It was five hours before a seemingly uninterested agent called the
restaurant manager. This agent, according to Mac, took a few notes and
said she would pass the information along to the field agents who were
handling the case.
[37]
This promise
represented the full extent of the government’s interest in the By
sighting even though Shukrijumah had been labeled by FBI Director Robert
Mueller as "the next Mohammad Atta” and even though the FBI had posted a
$5 million reward for any information leading to his capture. The
federal and state law enforcement officials failed to interview the
restaurant workers and the patrons, purportedly even those who were
willing to verify the presence of the terrorists in the restaurant. No
forensic evidence was obtained from the scene by any law enforcement
officials -- not even the utensils that had been used by the suspects.
When contacted by The Denver Post, Monique Kelso, spokeswoman for
the Denver bureau, said the office had received at least a dozen calls
as a result of the BOLO. The calls, Kelo said, were all taken seriously.
She added, "We follow up on every lead.”
[38]
The Ghost In Guyana
By early April, Adnan was -- once again -- safe and secure under the
protection of Farouk Razac in Georgetown, Guyana. This time he was
spotted at the Swiss House Cambio, Razac’s money exchange, by several
witnesses, including George Bacchus, a law enforcement informant.
[39]
At the Cambio, Adnan met one of Razac’s closest clients -- Imam Muhammed
Hassan Abrahemi, the director of the International Islamic College for
Advanced Studies, a small Shiite school in Georgetown that received
large amounts of revenue from the government of Iran. He became
acquainted with Abdul Nur, a civil engineer, who ran errands for Razac;
Abdul Kadir, who served as the assistant director at Abrahemi’s Islamic
College; and Russell Defreitas, a member of the Guyanese Parliament and
leader of Jamaat ul-Muslimeen. This new association would produce
a trial of corpses leading to a plot to a botched FBI sting and an
attempt to blow up the fuel line that feeds the JFK International
Airport in New York.
The first victim was
Abrahemi, who was kidnapped by two masked men as he was leaving the
Islamic College on April 2, 2004. Several days later, his body was
discovered within a shallow grave on the outskirts of Georgetown. The
hit appeared to be professional. Abrahemi had been shot twice in the
back of the head while assuming a kneeling position. His mouth had been
taped shut with duct tape, and his hands and feet were bound by nylon
cords. The perpetuators of the crime have never been caught.
By this time, the FBI
had managed to infiltrate Jamaat ul-Muslimeen and made use of
undercover agents to pose as jihadis and to work with Nur, Kadir, and
Dufreitas in an attempt to lure the elusive Adnan into a trap. The
undercover agents provided the terrorist group with money and logistical
support, compliments of US taxpayers, to launch a plot to blow up a
system of jet fuel supply tanks and pipelines that feed fuel to the JFK
International Airport in Queens, New York.
Later, U. S. Attorney
Roslynn Mauskoff would appear before the press to say that the planned
attack represented "one of the most chilling plots imaginable” -- a plot
which might have caused "unthinkable devastation.” In reality, the plot
was a ploy since exploding the fuel tanks represented a technical
impossibility. Jet fuel does not produce explosive force, and the
pipelines and fuel tanks that are buried beneath Queens have safety
valves to prevent any mishap.
[40]
The FBI had assumed
that a well-oiled scheme to blow up a massive international airport and
an entire borough of Manhattan would lure Adnan from his hiding place.
The assumption proved to be incorrect. Adnan failed to appear at any of
planning sessions in Trinidad and Guyana, and the federal officials were
left not only with a hefty bill for the cockamamie scheme but also the
creation of a new and financially flush arm of Jamaat ul-Muslimeen.
Nur, Kadir, Dufreitas
and Kareem Ibrahim, a fourth operative, were taken into custody albeit
several the arrests were a result of entrapment.
[41]
"We thought he could be the invisible hand. He's always in the shadows,
particularly in [the Caribbean]. He's passed through it, he's known, his
name came up in the conversations. He would have been the prize."
On May 7, 2007, two
months after the airport plot went array, Farouk Razac was found dead in
his Georgetown home with a wound to his head and marks around his neck.
An autopsy report concluded that he had died of asphyxiation due to
ligature strangulation. Carol Ann Lynch, Razac’s wife, was later charged
with the homicide but few observers believed that the petite Lynch, who
served as the reigning Miss South America, was capable of the crime.
[42]
The Waziristan
Summit
Following the federal
botch-up in Colorado, the diminutive Shukrijumah resurfaced at a
terrorist summit in the lawless Waziristan Province of Pakistan in April
2004. The summit has been described by the FBI as a "pivotal planning
session" in much the same manner as a 2000 meeting was held in Kuala
Lumpur for the 9-11 attacks. Attending the summit were Abu Issa al
Hindi, a Pakistani technician whose company contained plans for staging
attacks at financial institutions in New York, New Jersey, and
Washington, D.C., and Mohammed Babar, who has been charged with buying
materials to build bombs for attacks in Great Britain.
[43]
Babar is an American citizen and resident of Queens, New York, where he
was a leading member of the Islamic Thinkers Society, a group that
burned the American flag during a demonstration before the Israeli
consulate in 2006 and held up placards stating: "The mushroom cloud is
on its way.”
[44]
Shukrijumah South Of
The Border
On May 27, 2004, Adnan
el Shukrijumah was spotted at an Internet café in Tegucigalpa, the hilly
capital of Honduras, where he made calls to France, Canada, and the U.S.
He was described as badly dressed and bearded. At his table were Mara
Salvatrucha leaders (jefes) from Panama, Mexico, Honduras, and El
Salvador.
[45]
According to the café owner, who recognized Adnan from photos in the
newspaper, he spoke to the jefes in English and Spanish.
Shukrijumah’s presence at the cafe was later verified by the Honduran
Security Ministry, who confirmed that the elusive terrorists had made
telephone calls from there
to France, the U.S., and Canada.
[46]
While in Honduras, the Ministry maintained, Adnan became engaged in a
plot to blow up the Panama Canal.
[47]
On June 12, Gulshair el
Shukrijumah, Adnan’s radical father, died in Miramar as a result of a
stroke. Some sources attributed his demise to "the will of Allah."
His funeral was attended by around 1,000 people who "prayed for Allah to
accept their departed Sheik into his arms." Ibrahim Dremali, the Imam of
the Boca Raton Islamic Center, said that Gulshair had "a positive effect
on people.”
[48]
From Tegucigalpa, Adnan
made his way north to Belize in British Honduras and, from Belize, to
Mexico's Quintana Roo State, south of Cancun.
[49]
He remained in Mexico for much of the summer of 2004. In early August,
he was spotted in the northern Mexican province of Sonora near
"terrorist alley," the main passageway for illegal aliens, including
OTMs (other than Mexicans) and "Special Interest Aliens" -- to the land
of Mickey Mouse, MTV, and George W. Bush.
[50]
On August 18, 2004,
Texas and Arizona law enforcement officials were placed on alert for an
attempt by Adnan to sneak into the country with the vast hordes of
Hispanic illegal immigrants. The alert was issued by the U. S. Consulate
in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso. "We don’t want him
crossing into the United States because his plan is to conduct terror
operations,” Art Werge, a spokesman for the FBI’s El Paso office told
the press.
[51]
Nukes Arrive In
Mexico
Concern about
Shukrijumah's extended stay in Mexico was heightened in November 2004
with the arrest in Pakistan of Sharif al-Masri, a key al Qaeda
operative. Al Masri, an Egyptian national jihadist with close ties to al
Zawahiri, bin Laden's No. 2 man, informed interrogators that al-Qaeda
had made arrangements to smuggle nuclear supplies and tactical nuclear
weapons into Mexico. From Mexico, the weapons were to be transported
across the border with the help of a Latino street gang. The gang was
later identified as Mara Salvatrucha, the gang that Adnan had trekked
across the North American continent to meet in a Honduran café, and the
plans that he discussed with the gang leaders were the plans that had
been purportedly finalized at the terrorist summit in Waziristan.
[52]
In response to this
information, U.S. officials began monitoring all heavy trucks crossing
the border, while Mexican officials pledged to keep close watch over
flight schools and aviation facilities. Such precautions may have been
adopted too late. A Piper PA Pawnee crop duster was stolen from Ejido
Queretaro near Mexicali on November 1, 2004. The plane's tail number was
XBCYP. The thieves, Mexican officials surmised, were either drug dealers
or al-Qaeda operatives, and clearly one was a highly trained pilot.
[53]
In His Brother’s
Footsteps
In 2006, Nabil el-Shukrijumah,
Adnan’s younger brother, established a new website for Gulshair -- this
one to honor his memory. The site contains numerous photos from the
family album, including a snapshot of Gulshair teaching young boys at
his Brooklyn mosque. The words on the blackboard behind the kindly old
jihadi read: "The human being is under the oppression of the kuffar
(the unbeliever).” On the site, Nabil posted the following message:
"As Salaam Alaikum Dad, you're still living
among all of us, [we] will see you later but not that much later.”
[54]
Nabil, who
operates a print shop from the family homestead in Miramar, also created
his own personal My Space page on the internet. Here he uses the
name "El-Shukri.”
[Shukrijumah is the combination of Shukri and the last name of the
family, Jumah or Juman.] As soon as this page is opened, a visitor is
treated to the infamous Soldiers of Allah’s song, "1924.” The song
contains these haunting lyrics: "I am not going to give one inch of
Palestine to the Jews… I would rather have my flesh be cut up than cut
out Palestine from the Muslim land…” and "When the west was training
Muslim scholars for hire, Jews were setting Al-Aqsa mosque on fire!” The
page also contains a gallery of inspiring pictures. One with the
caption, "Oh Jerusalem, we are coming,” shows a terrorist with rifle on
horseback watching the City of David erupt in flames. There are also
illustrations of the bloated bodies of dead American soldiers in the
streets of Baghdad. A centerpiece of Nabil’s My Space is picture
of a jihadi holding a US rocket launcher with the image of Saddam
Hussein behind him. The picture contains this caption: "These are the
armaments of the enemy, who are disgraced.”
The
pictures are worrisome not only for what they represent but also for
their place of origin. One, in particular, is from
www.arab3.com. -- a site registered to Yousif al-Olayyan, a former
student at the University of Florida. Al-Olayyan, a former student at
the University of South Florida, is the registered agent and the
editor-in-chief for
www.alsakher.com, which features glowing reports of Al-Qaeda from
individuals who claim to have a close ties to Osama bin Laden and Ayman
al-Zawahiri It is disconcerting to note that, in October of 2002, al-Olayya
was invited to a Homeland Security program dealing with "corrosion in
reactors and nuclear power systems.” The event was co-organized by the
Los Alamos National Laboratory, which, according to its website, "helps
to ensure the safety of the nuclear weapons stockpile and reduce the
threat of terrorist attacks on our homeland.”
Finally, on
his page, Nabil treats all visitors to a videotape of how 9/11 had been
staged by the Bush Administration so that they can gain congressional
approval for the invasion of Muslim lands.
Meeting With Special Agent Lenzen
On March 7,
2007, Sean Michels, a correspondent for Global TV and a member of this
investigative team, met with FBI Special Agent Andrew Lenzen, who has
been appointed to spearhead the search for Adnan. The meeting took place
in Miami at the request of Mr. Michels.
Mr. Lenzen
professes to have the only real insight into Adnan’s training as a
jihadi and present whereabouts.
"I know him almost like his mother,” he once
told the press. "I’ve lived, slept and dreamed him for the past three
years.”
During his
conversation with Michels, Mr. Lenzen dismissed the findings of several
leading investigative journalists and insisted that Adnan was neither a
pilot nor an engineer. He further maintained that Gulshair and his
family had no ties to southern Ontario not even to Belal Philips) and
only made occasional visits to relatives in Montreal.
Mr.
Lenzen’s assertions, however, are refuted by Adnan’s appearances at
flight schools in Florida and Oklahoma, his academic records at Broward
Community College, and the photographs from the Shukrijumah family
album. For this reason, the Special Agent is either a disseminator of
disinformation to lead the press and the public on a wild goose chase or
a victim of the agency’s own misinformation.
Southern Ontario
Sightings
In the summer of 2005,
Adnan was spotted at a gas station on two occasions in Toronto by a
former Israeli intelligence official, who reported the sightings to CIS
and the FBI. He continues to wait for a response.
On October 31, 2006 --
The sight of Adnan without a Halloween mask on the campus of McMaster
University scared the hell out of members of the Gerard Group, a New
England security company. The company officials reported the sighting to
the FBI but there calls to the hotline and various regional offices went
unanswered.
On January 25, 2007,
witnesses testified that Adnan was residing in an apartment complex
within the quaint Canadian city of Guelph in southern Ontario. They said
that Adnan and nine other Muslim men who lived in the building made
daily visits to the regional airport where they believed he was working.
The witnesses contacted the authorities and expressed concern about
their personal safety, especially since several lived in the complex.
But no officials appeared at their doorways to substantiate their
claims.
Location Confirmed
Following the
sightings, expert hackers, including a computer wunderkind who
served with the government in Ottawa, managed to approximate Adnan’s
present whereabouts by securing his screen name and gaining access to
Adnan’s communications to family members, including Nabil in Florida and
his sister Aida in Arizona, and fellow jihadis, including
Gulshair’s former friends and associates in Brooklyn and Miramar.
Several communications from Adnan were traced in internet posting sites.
These included two universities in southern Ontario, the business center
a major hotel, and radical Islamic mosques. Through these efforts, the
technicians were able to triangulate Adnan’s whereabouts to an area of
one kilometer. Such leads were investigated by former Canadian law
enforcement officials, including a retired member of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, who decided in late October 2007 that the time was right
to contact the FBI and to bring the long search to a salubrious end.
But the contact to the
FBI was made with the stipulation that a criminal arrest warrant be
issued for Adnan so that he could be collared, taken into custody, and
extradited to the United States. This condition proved to be too taxing
.Upon receiving the information, the federal officials -- once again --
failed to process the findings and to conduct an investigation.
And So It Goes
Despite the alerts and
the warnings, the establishment of a hotline and command center, the
expenditure of millions in cockamamie plots, Adnan is alive and well and
living in southern Ontario. He has married and has several children. He
communicates regularly with his friends and loved ones through Skype, a
computer telephone service. He meets regularly with a band of radical
Islamists at his apartment, attends a neighborhood mosque, and spends
several hours every day at a local airport. He does not appear to be
hiding from the long arm of the law. He knows, no doubt, that Canada
will grant him asylum; that the Bush Administration has obtained no
criminal warrant for his arrest; and that the FBI has not secured an
order for his extradition.
Friedrich Nietzsche
wrote that if you stare into the abyss long enough, the abyss will stare
back. This report stands as a refutation to this assertion. The abyss
will not stare back. The abyss, truth be told, is an abyss.
[1] Charles Strouse,
"Muslim McCarthyism,” Miami New Times, April 3, 2003.
[2] Joe Kaufman mad
Beila Rabinowitz, "Father Knows Terrorism Best,” Front Page Magazine,
October 27, 2003, http://www.frontpagemag.com.
[3] "Bilal Philips:
‘Beheadings, Stonings, and Lashings Should Be Carried Out on Fridays,”
Militant Islam Monitor, April 22, 2005, http.//www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/558
[4] Kaufman and
Rabinowitz.
[5] Ibid.
[6] David Kidwell and
Larry Lebowitz, "FBI Sees Terror, Family Sees Good Son,” Miami Herald,
March 31, 2003.
[7] "A Really Bad Guy,”
ABC News – Primetime, March 20, 2004.
[8] Daniel Eggen and
Manuel Roig-Franzia, "FBI on Global Hunt for Al Qaeda Suspect,”
Washington Post, March 21, 2003.
[9] Sofian Abdelaziz
Zakout, quoted in "Texas and Arizona on Alert for Dirty Bomber Wannabe
Shukrijumah, Officials Warn of Border Crossing,” Militant Islam
Monitor, August 18, 2004, http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/249
[10]Belia Rabinowtitz
and William A. Mayer, "Florida Trail of Terror,” Pipeline News, July 15,
2004.
[11] Chitra Ragavan, "A
Hunt for ‘The Pilot,’” U. S. News and World Report, June 15, 2003.
[12] Ibid.
[13] "9/11 Terrorist
Travel,” Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
upon the United States,” August 21, 2004.
[14] Jane Corbin,
Al-Qaeda: In Search of a Terror Network That Threatens the World (New
Youth: Thunder Mouth’s Press/Nation Books, 2003), p. 117.
[15] James Bissett,
"Learning from Canada’s Mistakes: Terror along the Border,” Chronicles
Magazine, October 2005, http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/www.Chroniclees/2005/October2005/Bissett.html.
[16] Josh Meyer, "Five
Years Later: A Mystery Man Who Keeps the FBI Awake at Night,” Los
Angeles Times, September 3, 2006.
[17] Ibid.
[18] "Transcript of
News Conference with Deputy Attorney General James Comey on Jose
Padilla,” CNN, June 1, 2004.
[19] James Gordon Meek,
"Officials Fear Al-Qaeda Nuclear Attack,” New York Daily News, March 14,
2003.
[20] "One-Man ‘Dirty
Bomb’ Cell Sought in US and Canada,” Debka file, Issue 132, November 7,
2003, http://www.debka-net-weekly.com/issue.pl? username=iunmber-132
[21] Ibid.
[22] Ibid.
[23] Ibid. See also
Bill Gertz, "Al Qaeda Pursued A Dirty Nuke,” Washington Times, October
16, 2003, http://www.washtimes.com/national/20031016-110337-4698r.htm
[24] Christine Cox,
"Terror Fears Suspend Tours of Mac Reactor,” Hamilton Spectator, October
15, 2001. See also "Board Suspends Hospital License,” Mc Master News
(the news outline for Mc Master University), March 1998,
http://www.mcmaster.ca/us/opr/courier/mar998/news.html
[25] Mir’s interview
with Williams at the November 2006 America’s Truth Forum symposium was
taped by Private Investigator Laurice Tatum and Israeli journalist
Michael Rash.
[26] "One-Man ‘Dirty
Bomb’ Cell Sought in US and Canada,” Debka file.
[27] "Most Wanted: The
Next Atta,” 60 Minutes, CBS News, March 26, 2004.
[28] Chitra Ragavan, "A
Hunt for ‘The Pilot.”
[29] Ibid.
[30] James Gordon Meek,
"Officials Fear Al Qaeda Nuclear Attack.”
[31] Ibid
[32] "One Man ‘Dirty
Bomb’ Cell Sought in US and Canada.”
[33] "FBI Seeking
Public Assistance in Locating Individuals Suspected of Terrorist
Activities,” FBI National Press Office, March 20, 2004. Also see Evan
Thomas, David Klaidman, and Michael Isikoff, "Enemies among Us,”
Newsweek, June 7, 2004.
[34] "Neurologist
Questioned by FBI for Alleged al-Qaeda Links,” NBC News, April 3, 2003.
[35] Jim Kirksey, "Two
Suspected Al Qaeda Agents Dropped In for Meal, Says Denny’s Manager,”
Denver Post, May 28, 2004.
[36] Ibid.
[37] Ibid.
[38] Monique Kelso,
quoted in Ibid.
[39] Nigel Williams and
Zoisa Fraser, "Farouk Razac Found Dead at Home,” Stabroek News, May 8,
2007
[40] Mark Carltan, "JFK
Airport Plot Failed and Flawed,” The Age(Australia), June 4, 2007.
[41] Adam Goldman,
"Feds Foil JFK Plot; 4th Suspect Sought,” ABC News, June 2, 2007.
[42] "Beauty Queen
Charged with Husband’s Murder,” Stabroek News, May 11, 2007.
[43] Elaine Shannon and
Tim McGirk, "What Is This Man Planning?” Time, August 23, 2004.
[44] Interview with
Steve Emerson, Hannity and Colmes, Fox News, April 24, 2006.
[45] "Al Qaeda Said to
Recruit in South America,” Associated Press, August 22, 2004.
[46] Sherrie Gossett,
"Police Searching for Next Muhammad Atta,” World Net Daily May 27, 2004,
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE=39237
[47] Ibid.
[48] Texas and Arizona
on Alert for Dirty Bomber Wannabe Shukrijumah, Officials Warn of Border
Crossing.”
[49] "Border Breach
Stirs Fears,” Dallas Morning News, August 14, 2004.
[50] Michael Marizco,
"Sonora on Alert for #1 Al Qaeda Suspect,” Arizona Daily Star, August
18, 2004.
Art Werge in Ibid.
[51] "Al-Qaeda Wants to
Smuggle N-Materials to US,” Nation, November 17, 2004.
[52] Anna Clearley and
Ornell R. Soto, "Reason for Plane Theft Worrisome,” San Diego Union
Tribune, November 7, 2004.
[53] Joe Kaufman,
"Brother of Terror,” Front Page Magazine, March 22, 2007.
About Paul L. Williams,
PhD
Dr. Paul L. Williams, PhD, is an American
author, journalist and consultant on radical Islam and
counterterrorism. He is also an adjunct professor of humanities.
He is the author of six books, including The Day of Islam: The
Annihilation of America and the Western World, in which he
expands on the American Hiroshima scenario he believes to be
imminent, in which simultaneous nuclear attacks on 7 to 10
American cities would create havoc in American society. Prior to
this, he served for seven years as a consultant to the FBI about
terrorist and mafia criminal organizations.
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