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| Hunt for Terror Suspect Amid âDirty Bombâ Fears |
| 2003-10-17 |
| Last spotted in Canada, EFL: A wanted terror suspect travelled to Canada in search of material to make a âdirty bombâ, it was reported today. Adnan El Shukrijumah, a suspected senior al Qaida operative, is being hunted by the FBI and CIA who fear that he is plotting an attack on a US city with a crude radioactive device. The Washington Times cited intelligence sources who said the Saudi native was spotted last year in Hamilton, Ontario, posing as a student at McMaster University, which has a five-megawatt research reactor. Hummm, werenât there several "students" picked up in Canada and hadnât one of them been flying a plane around a reactor? Canât remember where. An FBI informant identified El Shukrijumah, 27, after a picture of the English-speaking suspect was issued by the FBI and posted on the agencyâs website in March. El Shukrijumahâs current whereabouts are unknown. He carries a Guyanese passport. Among others. According to the report, El Shukrijumah, who used to live in southern Florida, was identified by captured al Qaida leader Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Thereâs that Florida connection again. The newspaper said the dirty bomb plot involved acquiring the materials from within the North American continent, rather than smuggling them in. Last month the FBI posted a worldwide lookout bulletin for El Shukrijumah and three other suspects. They were listed as potentially âarmed and dangerousâ. A posting on the agencyâs website says: âEl Shukrijumah has been identified by numerous detainees as a key al Qaida operative who could possibly be used to plan and carry out acts of terrorism against the US. El Shukrijumah was in the United States prior to September 11 and his current whereabouts are unknown. El Shukrijumah carries a Guyana passport, but may attempt to enter the US with a Saudi, Canadian, or Trinidad passport as well.â Heâs a true holy man. The FBI, CIA, Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Royal Canadian Mounted Police declined to comment on the Washington Times report. Nobodyâs talking, huh? The university could not confirm whether El Shukrijumah was ever a student as records are confidential. Bet heâs another one of those "students" who register at a school to get a visa, but never take any classes. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 ...My son has one of the better Batman graphic novels - IIRC it's Return Of the Dark Knight - and there's a great scene in there where he's cornered one of the evil henchmen, who screams, "You can't do dis - I gots my RIGHTS!" Batman replies by grabbing him by the neck, pushing him through a picture window about 20 stories up, and holding him there as he growls, "I know...I lie awake every night counting them...just to drive myself crazy." THAT'S about how I feel right now. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2003-10-17 12:37:25 PM |
| #2 Prolly never been to Guyana... now French Guiana, maybe... If he's in Canada, he might as well be in Baltimore or D.C. - until we get that friendship fence built, anyway. And AP's right, of course, those confidential "student" records are sacrosanct. |
| Posted by: .com 2003-10-17 12:31:59 PM |
| #1 Make sure that his rights are protected. We would not want to be rights violators. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-10-17 11:56:32 AM |