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The
head of the Islamabad-based Al-Quds Media Centre has
received an audio message from a senior Taliban leader in
which he asked Muslims living in the US to leave the
country as soon as possible “because God’s punishment
would fall on America in the month of Ramazan.”
Jamal Ismail, a senior journalist who once worked for Al-Jazeera
television channel and is now head of the Al-Quds Media
Centre, told The News that he received a phone call
Thursday from Taliban leader Mulla Masoom Afghani.
“Afghani said he was speaking from somewhere in Kandahar
province. He read out the message in Arabic, which I
recorded. In it he advised Muslim residents of America to
get out to escape harm because the US could face big
attacks in the month of Ramazan,” said Jamal Ismail.
According to Jamal Ismail, it was the first time that
Afghani, who is head of the pro-Taliban clerics’
consultative council and the former ambassador of
Afghanistan to Pakistan, had conveyed such a message.
“Afghani didn’t say that it was a dream. It appeared that
he strongly believed that America was going to face
punishment at the hands of Allah,” he explained.
Last month, it was
reported the new al-Qaida field commander in Afghanistan
called for Muslims to leave the U.S. – particularly
Washington and New York – in anticipation of a major
terror attack to rival Sept. 11, according to an interview
by another Pakistani journalist.
Abu Dawood told Hamid
Mir, a reporter who has covered al-Qaida and met with
Osama bin Laden, the attack is being coordinated by Adnan
el-Shukrijumah and suggests it may involve some form of
weapon of mass destruction smuggled across the Mexican
border.
"Our brothers are ready
to attack inside America. We will breach their security
again," he is quoted as saying. "There is no timeframe for
our attack inside America; we can do it any time."
As Crusade Media has
previously reported, el-Shukrijumah is a trained nuclear
technician and accomplished pilot who 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.
The terrorist was last
seen in Mexico, where, on Nov. 1, 2004, he allegedly
hijacked a Piper PA Pawnee cropduster from Ejido Queretaro
near Mexicali to transport a nuclear weapon and nuclear
equipment into the U.S.
"He is an American and
a friend of Muhammad Atta, who led 9/11 attacks five years
ago," said Dawood. "We call him 'Jaffer al Tayyar' (Jafer
the Pilot); he is very brave and intelligent. (President)
Bush is aware that brother Adnan has smuggled deadly
materials inside America from the Mexican border. Bush is
silent about him, because he doesn’t want to panic his
people. Sheikh Osama bin Laden has completed his cycle of
warnings. You know, he is man of his words, he is not a
politician; he always does what he says. If he said it
many times that Americans will see new attacks, they will
definitely see new attacks. He is a real mujahid.
Americans will not win this war, which they have started
against Muslims. Americans are the biggest supporters of
the biggest terrorist in the world, which is Israel."
Mir reportedly
interviewed Dawood Sept. 12 at the tomb of Sultan Mehmud
Ghaznawi on the outskirts of Kabul. Dawood and the al-Qaida
leaders who accompanied him were clean-shaven and dressed
as Western reporters. The al-Qaida commander had contacted
Mir by cell phone to arrange the meeting.
El-Shukrijumah was born
in Guyana Aug. 4, 1975 – the firstborn 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.
The mosque, located at
554 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, has served as a hive for
terrorist activities. It has raised millions for the jihad
and has served as a recruiting station for al-Qaida. Many
of the planners of the 1993 attack on the World Trade
Center, including blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, were
prominent members of this notorious "house of worship."
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 homegrown terrorists.
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.
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. He also traveled to Trinidad and Guyana, where
virulent al-Qaida cells have been established. The
following month, he obtained an associate's degree in
computer engineering from Broward Community College.
During this time, he
managed to get passports from Guyana, Trinidad, Saudi
Arabia, Canada and the United States, according to
Williams. He also began to adopt a number of aliases,
including Abu Arifi, Jafar al-Tayyar, Jaafar At Yayyar,
Ja'far al-Tayar, and Mohammed Sher Mohammed Khan (the name
that appeared on his official FBI file). He traveled to
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where he met with Ramzi
Binalshibh, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and other members of
the al-Qaida high command. He also spent considerable time
within al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan, where he received
training in explosives and special operations.
Following 9/11, el-Shukrijumah
was reportedly singled out by bin Laden and al-Zawahiri to
spearhead the next great attack on America. One plan was
for a nuclear attack that would take place simultaneously
in seven U.S. cities, leaving millions dead and the
richest and most powerful nation on earth in ashes.
"Muslims should leave
America," said Dawood. "We cannot stop our attack just
because of the American Muslims; they must realize that
American forces are killing innocent Muslims in
Afghanistan and Iraq; we have the right to respond back,
in the same manner, in the enemy's homeland. The American
Muslims are like a human shield for our enemy; they must
leave New York and Washington."
"I am saying that
Muslims must leave America, but we can attack America
anytime," he said. "Our cycle of warnings has been
completed, now we have fresh edicts from some prominent
Muslim scholars to destroy our enemy, this is our
defending of Jihad; the enemy has entered in our homes and
we have the right to enter in their homes, they are
killing us, we will kill them."
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