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| El Shukrijumah sighted at Honduras internet cafe |
| 2004-07-01 |
| A Saudi-born terror suspect sought by U.S. officials was spotted earlier this year at an internet cafe in Honduras before he fled the country, Honduran Security Minister Oscar Alvarez told The Associated Press. Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, who once lived in Miramar in South Florida, is the subject of an FBI alert issued in 2003. The agency has asked law enforcement agencies and the public to be on the lookout for El Shukrijumah, on the grounds that he may be plotting terrorist attacks against the United States or its interests abroad. ``This man was seen at an internet business in Tegucigalpa, and then he fled the country,’’ Alvarez said, referring to Honduras’ capital city. El Shukrijumah, 28, apparently entered Honduras illegally from Nicaragua or Panama. ``This is a merciless individual who is linked to the Al Qaeda network terror network,’’ Alvarez said Wednesday. On security grounds, he refused to say exactly when the sighting occurred, noting only that it happened in 2004, and how El Shukrijumah had fled. He implied that the Honduran government received news of the man’s sighting after it was too late to catch him.``Honduras keeps tabs on suspicious foreigners in case they might be trying to commit terrorist attacks here or abroad,’’ Alvarez said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |