Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah

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Adnan Shukrijumah (2001)

Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah ( Arabic عدنان شكري جمعة, DMG ʿAdnān Šukrī Ǧumʿa ; * August 4, 1975 in Saudi Arabia ; † December 6, 2014 in South Waziristan ) was a Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda member. He was born in Saudi Arabia but grew up in the United States.

A preliminary arrest warrant was issued against him in March 2003 , as a result of which he was also placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) information list on the war on terror . In addition, the continued United States Department of State on the Rewards for Justice Program , a reward of up to $ 5 million for information on his whereabouts from.

He last lived with his family in Miramar . However, Shukrijumah was known to have a Guyanese passport and possibly also used a Saudi, Canadian, or Trinidadian passport. Saudi Arabia repeatedly denied that el Shukrijumah was a Saudi citizen. He was suspected of being a senior member of al-Qaeda .

His mother insisted that her asthmatic son had been wrongly accused. He also used the names Abu Arif and Jafar al-Tayyar , the latter translating as "Jafar, the pilot" means.

In 2014 Shukrijumah was killed in a military operation by special forces of the Pakistani armed forces in South Waziristan . The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan confirmed Shukrijumah's death two days later. In July 2016, al-Qaeda also confirmed Shukrijumah's death and requested the release of his wife and children.

Early years

Adnan G. El Shukrijumah

Shukriumah moved to the United States with his parents as a young teenager in the 1980s. His mother, Zuhrah Abdu Ahmed, continues to live in Florida, while his father died after working as an imam . His father caught the attention of the authorities in 2001 after the Saudi embassy sent him $ 19,200.

Shukrijumah learned English as a teenager. As a young adult, he attended courses in “English as a Second Language” in 1997. The FBI owns a video from this time by Adnan G. El Shukrijumah showing him giving a presentation to the class on the subject of jump-starting. US authorities assume that he attended an Afghan training camp in the late 1990s. Allegedly he received help from the American neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui . Shukrijumah enrolled at Broward College and worked part time as a computer technician. He applied for the United States Permanent Resident Card to gain recognition for the United States as permanent residence, but lied about a previous arrest.

In March 2001, while monitoring Imran Mandhai , who was visiting the same Florida mosque as Shukrijumah , the authorities noticed that he saw him as a possible ally for his plans, even though Shukrijumah refused to collaborate with the militant Mandhai. Reports later accused Mandhai of developing plans to destroy the Mount Rushmore National Memorial .

After graduating with a degree in computer engineering, Shukrijumah left the United States in May 2001 and flew to Trinidad . Mandhai, on the other hand, testified in court that he believed he last saw Skukrijumah two months after the stated departure. The authorities tried to speak to Shukrijumah, which is why they went to his parents' house six times without prior notice, where they were told he had left the country.

Under torture, José Padilla alleged that he worked with Shukrijumah in the summer of 2001 and that they were taught how to inject natural gas into complexes of buildings and cause explosions during a course at Kandahar Airport . Padilla stated that they argued constantly and that he complained to Mohammed Atef that he could not work with Shukrijumah and that the training was abandoned.

In late 2002, Shukrijumah called his parents and told them that he had found a wife, settled down and had a son and was now teaching English in Morocco.

2003 Terror Warning

In March 2003, his family's Florida home was searched by the FBI, but no information on his whereabouts was obtained. A notice was published seeking him as a terrorist posing "serious threat" to "gas stations, tankers, subways, trains or bridges." Several "sightings" have been reported across the country, including one in a sandwich shop in South Tampa .

In September 2003 the FBI issued a warning to four people who "pose a threat to US citizens." These were Abderraouf Jdey , Shukrijumah and the previously unknown people Zubayr al-Rimi and Karim el-Mejjati .

In October Paul L. Williams wrote a book called Dunces of Doomsday . In it he alleged that Amer el-Maati , Jaber A. Elbaneh and Abu Anas al-Liby were seen in the Hamilton area last year , and that Shukrijumah was seen at McMaster University , where he "wasted no time to gain access to the nuclear reactor and steal more than 180 pounds of nuclear materials for making radiological bombs. ”The author was later sued by the university for defamation as there was no evidence of any part of his story. The publisher later apologized for allowing Williams to print statements that "in fact had no basis."

“Mr. Williams' allegations about McMaster [are] on a par with UFO reports and JFK conspiracy theories ... the notion that because there are people on the faculty from Egypt that McMaster is then a haven for terrorism is not only logically offensive, it smacks of racism. "

"Mr. Williams' claims about McMaster are on par with UFO reports and JFK conspiracy theories ... The notion that McMaster is a terrorist haven with faculty from Egypt is not only logically insulting, it smells like racism . "

- Attorney Peter Downard

Terror warning in summer 2004

On May 26, 2004, United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that Shukrijumah was reportedly one of seven al-Qaeda members planning a terrorist attack in the summer or fall of 2004. The other terror suspects on the list were Ahmad Chalfan al-Ghailani (who was later captured in Pakistan), Fazul Abdullah Muhammad , Amer el-Maati , Aafia Siddiqui , Adam Yahiye Gadahn , and Abderraouf Jdey . The first two have been wanted as terrorists by the FBI since 2001 for their involvement in the terrorist attacks on the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi . Jdey was listed on the FBI's information list when it was first introduced on January 17, 2002. Shukrijumah and the three other people were later added to the list. Democrats labeled the warning "suspicious" and said it was merely a distraction from the falling polls of President Bush and the failures of the Iraq invasion . CSIS director Reid Morden voiced similar concerns. He said it was "election year" policy rather than an actual threat. The New York Times pointed out that they one day before the announcement by the United States Department of Homeland Security had been informed that there is no risk.

Ashcroft alleged that Shukrijumah was specifically looking for locations for possible terrorist attacks in New York City and around the Panama Canal . On June 30, the Honduran Security Ministry announced that Shukrijumah the last few months in Honduras was staying and there with members of the Mara Salvatrucha - gang hit. In September, the Aviation Security Association alleged that a Japanese flight attendant confronted Shukrijumah with his unusual behavior at Kansai Airport . In June 2007, the New York Post claimed that Shukrijumah was "al-Qaeda’s chief operations officer for a nuclear terrorist attack in the United States" and that Osama bin Laden had chosen him "to detonate atomic bombs in several US cities at the same time."

ID

In a 2006 summary of the Director of National Intelligence's High Value Terrorist Detainee Program , Jafar al-Tayyar was identified as el Shukrijumah by waterboarding Abu Subaida. Chalid Sheikh Mohammed was also waterboarded. He was then shown a photo of Shukrijumah, whereupon he agreed that it was Jafar al-Tayyar . However, other prisoners from Guantanamo stated that another man whose picture was in a collection was Jafar al-Tayyar . American authorities denied these claims.

Relationship with Najibullah Zazi and inclusion on the FBI terrorist list

In June 2010, US counter-terrorism officials anonymously reported to the Associated Press that Najibullah Zazi, who was arrested in September 2009 for a planned suicide attack on the New York City Subway , had met with Shukrijumah in Pakistan. On July 8, 2010, Shukrijumah was added to the FBI terror list.

Terrorist activity

Shukrijumah and two others were part of a group that planned and approved terrorist attacks and recruited terrorists. His two colleagues were killed in a United States drone attack, making Shukrijumah de facto boss, succeeding his former boss Mohammed. FBI agent Brian LeBlanc told a US news network that "he would be equated with the chief of operations" and investigators found him "extremely dangerous."

However , according to the Long War Journal , Shukrijumah was operations leader for North America.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c US reward offer for information on el Shukrijumah ( Memento from September 13, 2006)
  3. ↑ FBI Seeking Information, War on Terrorism list archive , Internet Archive Wayback Machine, June 3, 2003
  4. ↑ FBI Seeking Information Alert for el Shukrijumah ( Memento from December 22, 2016)
  5. ^ A b c National Broadcasting Company , Woman Sought by FBI Reportedly Arrested in Pakistan: Neurologist Questioned by FBI for Alleged Al-Qaida Links , April 3, 2003
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  8. ↑ Josh Meyer: Fbi Hunts Homegrown, Feared Al-qaida Leader , Sun Sentinel. September 3, 2006. Accessed January 25, 2013. 
  9. ↑ Lisa J. Huriash: Former Miramar man now runs al-Qaida, FBI says. Not true, his mother says , Sun Sentinel. August 6, 2010. Accessed January 25, 2013. 
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m US News, A hunt for 'the Pilot' ( memento of October 12, 2012), March 30, 2003
  11. ↑ Mushtaq Yusufzai: Top Al Qaeda Commander Adnan el Shukrijumah Killed: Pakistan Army . December 6, 2014. 
  12. ↑ http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/06/world/asia/pakistan-al-qaeda-death/index.html?iref=allsearch
  13. ↑ http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2014/12/pakistani_taliban_confirms_dea.php
  14. ↑ http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/09/did-al-qaeda-exchange-former-pakistani-army-chiefs-son-for-zawahiris-daughters.php
  15. ^ Boston Herald , "War on Terror: Money Trail," April 9, 2004
  16. ↑ English transcription of Adnan G. El Shukrijumah's video ( memento from December 27, 2016), FBI, 1997, video with RealPlayer ( memento from April 12, 2010), MPG video with Windows Media Player ( memento from April 12, 2010)
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  18. ↑ Adams, David. St. Petersburg Times , "US charges long-detained citizen," November 23, 2003
  19. ↑ Meyer, Josh. Los Angeles Times , "A mystery man who keeps the FBI up at night," September 3, 2006
  20. ↑ Cyber ​​War! . PBS. April 24, 2003. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
  21. ^ CNN , Transcript of News Conference on Jose Padilla , June 1, 2004
  22. ↑ CNN , FBI seeks 4 suspected of terrorist activities , September 2003
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  24. ↑ Transcript: Ashcroft, Mueller news conference , CNN, May 26, 2004
  25. ↑ Feds Hoped to Snag Bin Laden Nuke Expert in JFK Bomb Plot . In: Fox News , June 4, 2007. 
  26. ↑ Summary of the High Value Terrorist Detainee Program (PDF) Director of National Intelligence . Archived from the original on November 30, 2006. Retrieved April 29, 2007.
  27. ↑ US officials: Al-Qaeda operative tied to NY plot . Retrieved June 30, 2010. 
  28. ↑ Adnan G. El Shukrijumah . FBI. Archived from the original on September 17, 2010. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
  29. ^ AFP: Rising Al-Qaeda leader spent youth in US: report , Google. August 6, 2010. Accessed January 25, 2013. 
  30. ↑ http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/07/al_qaeda_sleeper_age.php
personal data
SURNAME el Shukrijumah, Adnan Gulshair
ALTERNATIVE NAMES عدنان شكري جمعة (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda member
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Saudi Arabia
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2014
Place of death South Waziristan