| Adnan el
Shukrijumah, a trained nuclear technician and accomplished
pilot, has been singled out by bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri
to serve as the field commander for the next terrorist
attack on U.S. soil, a nuclear event that is known among
al-Qaida planners as "the American Hiroshima
Following the success of
9/11, Adnan el Shukrijumah received his commission to
serve as the field commander for the next attack on U.S.
soil–the so-called American Hiroshima," Willams wrote in
The Dunces of Doomsday. "In preparation for this mission,
he–along with fellow al Qaeda agents Anas al-Liby, Jaber
A. Elbaneh, and Amer el-Maati–was sent to McMaster
University in Hamilton, Ontario, a facility that housed a
five-megawatt nuclear research reactor, the largest
reactor of any educational facility in Canada. At
McMaster University, where the al Qaeda agents may have
registered under fictitious names, Shukrijumah and friends
wasted no time in gaining access to the nuclear reactor
and stealing more than 180 pounds of nuclear material for
the creation of radiological bombs according to Paul L.
Williams. who has served as a consultant for the FBI.
Adnan el-Shukrijumah was born in either Guyana or Saudi
Arabia on Aug. 4, 1975 – the first born of Gulshair el-Shukrijumah,
a 44-year-old radical Muslim cleric, and his 16-year-old
wife. In 1985,
Gulshair migrated to the United States, where he assumed
duties as the imam of the Farouq Mosque in Brooklyn.
This Mosque is a well known possible hot bed for radical
Islam In 1995, the Shukrijumah family relocated to
Miramar, Fla., where Gulshair became the spiritual leader
of the radical Masjid al-Hijah Mosque, and where Adnan
became friends with Jose Padilla, who planned to detonate
a radiological bomb in midtown Manhattan; Mandhai Jokhan,
who was convicted of attempting to blow up nuclear power
plants in southern Florida; and a group of other
home-grown terrorists. .
Having found and
exclusively interviewed Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir,
Williams and Dastych told WorldNetDaily "al-Qaeda has
already obtained nuclear suitcase weapons from the Russian
black market, weapons that have been tested in Afghanistan
in 2000, and may have already been forward-deployed inside
the U.S.. Williams says that Osama has already
smuggled seven to ten suitcase nuclear bombs into the U.S.
through the Mexican border.
The terrorist,
El-Shukrijumah,
was last seen in Mexico, where, on Nov. 1, 2004, he
allegedly hijacked a Piper PA Pawnee cropduster from Ejido
Queretaro near Mexacli to transport a nuclear weapon and
nuclear equipment into the U.S. The plane's tail number
was XBCYP. |
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Adan El
Shkrijumah Fact File: |
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Born August 4,
1975 Saudi Arabia
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El Shukrijumah
occasionally wears a beard. He has a pronounced nose
and is asthmatic. El Shukrijumah
speaks English and carries a Guyanese passport, but
may attempt to enter the United States with a Saudi,
Canadian, or Trinidadian passport.
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The Rewards For
Justice Program, United States Department of State, is
offering a reward of up to $5 million for information
leading directly to the capture of Adnan G. El
Shukrijumah
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On March 26,
2003 the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia issued a Material Witness Warrant
for his arrest. El Shukrijumah may be involved
with al-Qa'ida terrorist activities and, if so, poses
a serious threat to U.S. citizens and interests
worldwide.
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Described by
Time Magazine as "an accomplished Arab Guyanese bomb
maker and commercial pilot". (Time Magazine, August
23, 2004). The fourth photo on the right is a picture
identified in the McMaster University 1998 Engineer
and Physics graduating class as graduate Ciro Vitolo.
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El-Shukrijumah
represents the perfect "sleeper agent," since he
speaks English without the slightest hint of an accent
and possesses the uncanny abilities to blend into a
crowd, to alter his looks, and to assume a multitude
of identities
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Adnan
Shukrijumah attended flight schools in Florida and
Norman, Oklahoma, along with Mohammad Atta and the
other 9-11 operatives, and he became a highly skilled
commercial jet pilot, although he, like Atta and the
other terrorists, never applied for a license with the
Federal Aviation Commission.
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In April 2001,
Shukrijumah spent 10 days in Panama, where he
reportedly met with al-Qaida officials to assist in
the planning of 9-11 |
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