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Excerpt From - The Al Qaeda Connection By: Dr. Paul Williams

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Most alarming was the report that Adnan el-Shukrijumah, the appointed Mohammed Atta for the next 9/11, had secured the services of Mara Salvatrucha to reenter the United States after a series of all-out alarms had been issued for his arrest. Shukrijumah is now in the US as of this September 2005!

Adnan el-Shukrijumah was born in Guyana on August 4, 1975 – the first born of Gulshair el-Shukrijumah, a forty-four-year-old radical Muslim cleric, and his sixteen year old wife. In 1985 Gulshair migrated to the United States, where he assumed duties as the imam of the Farouq mosque – a mosque that raised millions for the jihad and that served as a recruiting station for Al Qaeda. In 1995 the Shukrijumah family moved to Miramar, Florida, where Gulshair became the spiritual leader of the radical Masjid al-Hijah and where Adnan became friend with José Padilla, who planned to detonate a radiological bomb in midtown Manhattan; Mandhai Jokan, who was convicted of attempting to blow up nuclear power plants in southern Florida; and a group of other home-grown terrorists.

Adnan attended flight schools in Florida and Norman, Oklahoma, along with Mohammed Atta and the other 9/11 operatives, and he became an accomplished commercial jet pilot, although he never applied for a license with the Federal Aviation Commission.

In April 2001 Adnan spent ten days in Panama, where he reportedly met with al Qaeda officials to assist in the planning of 9/11. He also traveled to Trinidad and Guyana. The following month, he obtained an associate’s degree in computer engineering from Broward Community College.

During this time, he managed to amass passports from Guyana, Trinidad, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and Canada. He also began to adopt a number of aliases, including Adnan G. el-Shukrijumah, Abu Arifi, Jafar al-Tayyar, Jaafar At Yayyar, Ja’far al-Tayar, and Mohammed Sher Mohammed Khan. (the name that appeared on his official FBI file.) He traveled to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where he met with Ramzi Binalshibh, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and other members of the al Qaeda high command. The planners of 9/11. He also spent considerable time within the al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, where he was trained in explosives.

El-Shukrijumah proved to be unique among the terrorists. Not only could he speak English without the slightest trace of an accent, but he also possessed the ability to blend into a crowd, to alter his looks, and to assume a multitude of identities. He represented the proverbial Mr. Cellophane.

Following the success of 9/11, el-Shukrijumah became singled out by bin Laden and al-Zawahiri to serve as the field commander for the next great attack on US soil – the so-called American Hiroshima – that would leave millions dead and the richest and most powerful nation on earth in ashes. In preparation for this mission, Adnan, along with fellow al Qaeda sleeper agents Anas al-Liby, Jaber A. Elbaneh, and Amer el Maati, was sent to McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, a facility that boasted a five-megawatt nuclear research reactor, the largest reactor of any educational facility in Canada.

At McMaster, where they may have enrolled under aliases, el-Shukrijumah and his associates wasted little time in gaining access to the nuclear reactor and stealing more than 180 ponds of nuclear waste for the creation of radiological bombs.

In the wake of Operation Enduring Freedom, US military officials discovered the reoccurrence of el-Shukrijumah’s name in “pocket litter” – documents and scraps taken from prisoners and dead al Qaeda soldiers. The name did not set off immediate alarms until Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda’s military operations chief, was captured in Karachi, Pakistan. After days of interrogations, coupled with severe sleep deprivation, Khalid Mohammed, as noted earlier, told US officials that bin Laden was planning to create a “nuclear hell storm” in America. 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” He further confessed that the field commander was a naturalized American citizen whom he called “Jafar al-Tayyar” (“Jafer the Pilot”).

US officials soon learned that Jafar the Pilot was an alias for Adnan el-Shukrijumah and that he and other al Qaeda agents had been sent to McMaster. By the time Canadian officials became alerted to the situation, it was too late – the elusive Adnan had already crossed the border into Buffalo, where he remained sheltered by members of a local mosque.

On March 21, 2004, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert Mueller issued a BOLO (“be-on-the-lookout”) for el-Shukrijumah and Amer el-Maati, along with Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman who received a biology degree from MIT and penned a doctoral thesis on neurological science at Brandeis; Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani (aka “Fōopie”), who took part in the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania; and Adam Yahiye Gadahn (aka Adam Pearlman), a convert to Islam who grew up on a goat ranch in Riverside, California. Also mentioned was Abderraouf Jdey, the leader of the al Qaeda cell in Toronto.

Several days after the BOLO was released, Adnan and Jdey were spotted at a Denny’s Restaurant in Avon, Colorado, where one ordered a chicken sandwich and a salad. The restaurant manager described them as “demanding, rude and obnoxious.”

Following this sighting, the diminutive Adnan, who stands at five feet four and weighs 132 pounds, resurfaced at a terrorist summit in the lawless Waziristan Province of Pakistan in March 2004. The summit has been described by the FBI as a “pivotal planning session” in much the same manner a 2000 meeting in Kuala Lumpur was for the 9/11 attacks. Attending the meeting were Mohammed Babar, who (as stated above) has been charged with buying materials to build bombs for use in attacks in Great Britain, and al-Hindi, a Pakistani technician whose computer contained plans for staging attacks at financial institutions in New York, New Jersey, and Washington, DC.

On May 27, 2004, el-Shukrijumah was spotted at an Internet café in Tegucigalpa, the hilly capital of Honduras, where he made calls to France, Canada, and the United States. He was described as badly dressed and bearded. At his table were Mara Salvatrucha leaders (jefes) from Panama, El Salvador, Mexico and Honduras.

From Tegucigalpa, he made his way north to Belize in British Honduras and , from Belize, to Mexico’s Quintana Roo State, south of Cancun.

El-Shukrijumah remained in Mexico for much of the summer. In late August, he was spotted in the northern Mexican province of Sonora near “terrorist alley” (Where 8,000 illegals from terror-prone countries like Sudan, Yemen, Egypt, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia have come into the US in the past six months.) Alberto Chapetti of the US Consulate in Nogales issued warnings about the presence of the terrorist in the area along with the posting of a $5 million reward for tips leading to his arrest.

Concern about el-Shukrijumah’s sojourn 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 with close ties to Ayman al-Zawahiri, informed interrogators that al Qaeda has made arrangements to smuggle nuclear supplies and small tactical nuclear weapons into Mexico. From Mexico, the weapons were to be transported across the border with the help of a Latino street gang.

In response to this information, US 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 had been 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.

Dr. Paul Williams states that Osama has smuggled ten to twenty nuclear weapons into the US! American Hiroshima could happen soon!

 

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