Is jihad pilot Adnan Shukrijumah dead or alive?
By Michelle Malkin
MichelleMalkin.com
I’ve written many times over the last decade
about
Adnan Shukrijumah, the FBI Most Wanted terror
plotter and jihad pilot. Refresher: On the
anniversary of 9/11 this year, I
asked:
Black caliphate flags flap in the open air.
Islamic head-choppers wreak bloody havoc around
the world. Nearly a
dozen commercial airliners disappear in Libya.
And America’s immigration and entrance systems
remain in
shambles.
Now is a good time to ask a question I first posed
10 summers ago: Where is Adnan Shukrijumah? A
decade later, the question is still unanswered. The
FBI has yet to track down this homicidal plotter.
Have you forgotten?
Saudi-born Shukrijumah, billed as the
“next Mohammed Atta,” has been a fugitive since
the 9/11 terrorist attacks. His father,
Gulshair, was a Wahabi cleric funded by the Saudi
government. The
elder Shukrijumah headed mosques in New York and
Miami,
consorted with Israel-bashing black Muslim agitators,
and also served as
one-time interpreter for convicted 1993 World Trade
Center mastermind Omar Abdel Rahman (the Blind
Sheik). The radical Muslim apple didn’t fall far
from the tree.
The younger Shukrijumah has been tied to al-Qaida
training camps in Afghanistan and reportedly met
convicted Muslim convert “dirty bomb” plotter
Jose Padilla overseas.
Gitmo detainee and jihad overlord Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed identified Shukrijumah as a fledgling
new cell leader. He allegedly trained under
alleged terror financier Ramzi bin al-Shibh.
In September 2003, the feds put a
$5 million bounty on Shukrijumah’s head. The FBI
“Most Wanted Terrorists” bulletin warns he is “armed
and dangerous.” Aliases: “Adnan G. El Shukri Jumah,
Abu Arif, Ja’far al-Tayar, Jaffar al-Tayyar, Jafar
Tayar, Jaafar al-Tayyar, Hamad.” The translation of
Ja’far al-Tayar, Jaffar al-Tayyar, Jafar Tayar and
Jaafar al-Tayyar? “Jafar the Pilot.”
One of these aliases linked the enigmatic man to the
same Oklahoma flight school attended by convicted
“20th hijacker”
Zacarias Moussaoui. Shukrijumah reportedly
undertook flight training in the late 1990s or early
2000 in Florida and secured a flying license for
light aircrafts. He is rumored to have acquired
bomb-making expertise, as well. Somehow and
somewhere along the way, Shukrijumah obtained a
legal U.S. green card.
Among the nightmare activities Shukrijumah has
reportedly coordinated, according to the FBI:
“Conspiracy to Use Weapons of Mass Destruction;
Providing Material Support to a Foreign Terrorist
Organization; Conspiracy to Provide Material Support
to a Foreign Terrorist Organization; Receiving
Military-Type Training From a Foreign Terrorist
Organization; Conspiracy to Commit an Act of
Terrorism Transcending National Boundaries; Attempt
to Commit an Act of Terrorism Transcending National
Boundaries; Use of Destructive Device.”
In 2007, Shukrijumah’s name surfaced in
wiretaps related to a busted New York City
subway bombing plot. (Colorado
jihadist Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty to
terrorism charges related to the “martyrdom
operation” in 2010.)
In 2010, Shukrijumah was
indicted in the Eastern District of New York for
his alleged role in a terrorist plot to attack
targets in the United States and the United Kingdom.
According to the charges, senior al-Qaida leadership
in Pakistan oversaw the conspiracy and a larger
scheme by al-Qaida in Pakistan to use Western
operatives to attack a target in the United States.
Law enforcement sources have placed Shukrijumah on
the southern border, in Guyana, at a
Trinidad jihadi compound, and at a
meeting of Latin American gangs. Shukrijumah
reportedly joined high-level jihad planners in
Pakistan’s outlaw
Waziristan province in 2004, which experts
likened to the pivotal planning session in Kuala
Lumpur that preceded the 9/11 attacks. “This was a
meeting of a bunch of cold-blooded killers who are
very skilled at what they do and have an intense
desire to inflict an awful lot of pain and suffering
on America,” a source told Time magazine at the
time.
“He speaks English and has the ability to fit in and
look innocuous,” an FBI agent noted. “He could
certainly come back here, and nobody would know it.”
The magazine added that “U.S. authorities have put
his name on domestic and international watch lists
but fear he will travel to Mexico or Canada on phony
documents and then sneak across the border into the
U.S.”
Bin Laden may be dead. But jihad lives. Our borders
are wide open. Our fraud-riddled visa programs
continue to be exploited. Tens of millions of visa
overstayers, deportation fugitives and
border-crossers go unpunished, undetected and
unmonitored. And political correctness reigns. God
help America the Unsecure.
This weekened, Pakistan officials “claimed”
that Shukrijumah is dead after being targeted by its
military:
On Saturday, the authorities finally caught up with
Adnan Shukrijumah, al-Qaeda’s chief of global
operations who had a $5 million (£3.2 million)
bounty on his head. Shukrijumah, 39, died in a raid
by Pakistan military on a compound in South
Waziristan tribal area. He had been hunted down and
killed.
US authorities had him on their most wanted list
since 2010, while the justice department had charged
him with ordering an attack on the New York subway.
The same indictment links him to a plot to blow up
shopping centres in Manchester, while he has also
been implicated in attacks on the London Underground
and to trains in Norway.
Shukrijumah’s role in al-Qaeda was to choose the
targets and then recruit the terrorists to carry
them out. The attacks on New York, London and
Manchester were thankfully thwarted.
Confirmation of his death came from a Pakistan
senior army officer. “The al-Qaeda leader, who was
killed by the Pakistan army in a successful
operation, is the same person who had been indicted
in the United Stated,” he said.
Hmmmm.
Given the history of past dubious claims about
other
top
al Qaeda leaders being
killed and killed again, I’m taking the news
with a grain of salt.