Adnan G. El Shukrijumah –  “The next Mohammad Atta”

  

Adnan G. El Shukrijumah is a Saudi terror suspect with a $5 million bounty on his head.  The FBI has been hunting him for over three years.  He has been billed as the “next Mohammed Atta.”  

Adnan Shukrijunah the son of Saudi funded Wahabi cleric in Miramar, Florida USA was named by US law enforcement as 'Mohammed Atta's sucessor' based on information from Khalid Sheik Mohammed the 9/11 mastermind who was captured in Pakistan in 2003. Adnan is a former resident of Miramar, South Florida, where he attended computer and English classes at Broward Community College in 1997. A native of Guyana, El Shukrijumah's father, Gulshai, died in Miramar on June 2004.

Being the father of an aspiring dirty bomber with terrorist ties to terrorist going back 20 years, and having one's name on the Saudi payroll appears to have been a job asset for Adnan Shukrijumah's father Gulshair.  After the Al Hirjah mosque next to his Miramar home supposedly asked him to step down, due to unwanted publicity, Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout, the director of AMANA- The American Muslim Society of North America, ,and a Shukrijumah family friend offered "the Sheik' a place on the board of directors of the Shamshuddin Islamic Center.

In 2003 Gulshair intimated that losing his $500 dollar a month position as Imam at Al Hijrah would bring financial hardship to him and his family.  He sniveled to the press that "I feel very said because I have done no wrong", and declared that "if my son is suspect in something it does not mean that I too am also suspect."

According to Michael Isikoff's and Mark Hosenball's April 2004 Newsweek investigative articles into Saudi government terror funding:

"The Florida based Imam (Gulshair Shukrijumah), has been on the FBI radar screen for some time."

"In response to the U.S. calls for tighter controls the Saudi government terminated payments to Gulshair El Shukrijumah, along with a number of other clerics being supported by the embassy."

Gulshair Shukrijumah collected $19,400 dollars in checks from the Saudi embassy between 2000 and 2003 . He also acted as interpreter for the 'Blind Sheik' Omar Abdel Rahman who masterminded the 1993 WTC bombings, as well as plots to bomb other U.S. landmarks, and instigated attacks abroad.

Shukrijumah, described as a pilot and bombmaker, and is also known by several aliases and nicknames, including "Jaffar the Pilot”, was among several suspected al-Qaeda figures who met in the northwestern province of Waziristan in Pakistan during March 2004, according to the Los Angeles Times and other publications. Pakistani officials said that meeting also was attended by Osama bin Laden lieutenant Abu Eisa al Hindi, an Indian convert to radical Islam and surveillance specialist living in Britain, Mohammed Junaid Babar, a Pakistani-American who arrived at the summit with cash, sleeping bags and ponchos and communications engineer Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, whose computer discs allegedly contained surveillance reports for a planned attack on buildings in the United States and Britain.

"The personalities involved, the operations, the fact an explosives expert came here and went back, all this was extremely significant," Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said.

In 2004, as a result of this intelligence and further intelligence from captured Al Qaeda operatives,  the then Attorney General John Ashcroft, in a rushed briefing, singled out Shukrijumah as one of seven especially dangerous international terror figures wanted by the government. A $5 million reward has been issued for information leading to his capture.

Newsweek magazine said authorities have been hunting Shukrijumah since al-Qeada's attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. With no solid leads, counterterrorism agents began trying to smoke him out with publicity.

Some US officials fear the summit meeting might have been a key planning session ahead of a major attack -- just as the September 11, 2001, strike on the US was preceded by an al-Qaeda gathering in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, 11 months earlier.

A US official described those at the Pakistan summit as "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".

Shukrijumah disappeared from his Miramar Florida home before 9-11 and hasn't talked with his family in more than three years. His name surfaced on paperwork in al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan after the American invasion and was not heard about until May 2004 when he was spotted in Honduras on May 27 at a Tegucigalpa Internet café, FBI officials said, and formerly resided in Trinidad and Tobago, off the coast of South America.

"He is believed to be one of the most dangerous cell leaders below the leadership of al-Qaeda who plans to hurt the United States," said Art Werge, spokesman for the FBI in El Paso.

It was reposted the female Internet café owner recognized Shukrijumah from photos in the newspaper. Police arrived at the café just after the suspect had left. He apparently was speaking in English, and a little in Spanish and French. The suspect was seen with two bearded individuals who "had a rough appearance. 

Since this sighting however, nothing has being heard of Shukrijumah.  Where is he now and what is he planning?