Take no prisoners.
Posted on 08/29/2006 12:34:48 PM PDT by PatriotCJC
PHOENIX - Federal law enforcement agencies along Arizona's border with Mexico are on alert for a suspected al-Qaida operative who may be working his way north to the United States from Honduras.
Susan Herskovits, spokeswoman for the FBI's Phoenix office, said Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, a 29-year-old Saudi national, was reportedly seen in Honduras recently. The man was one of a number of suspected terrorists being sought by the United States recently.
Because the border between Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora is a popular smuggling route for illegal immigrants the alert for El Shukrijumah includes both the American and Mexican states, she said.
In articles that have appeared in the Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review in the past, federal agents have noted that a corridor exists in Cochise County that is popular for smugglers who bring illegal immigrants into the United States.
Can't be, haven't you heard? Terrorists don't cross the southern border.
Don't worry, he's just coming over here to blow up some cities that American's won't blow up. Just another immigrant, nothing to fear. /sarc
As I said in another thread....they cannot use profiling to get these guys on the ground any more than when they are buying a ticket at Boston Logan. sarc. again
Hard to know, but I kinda doubt it. Shukrijunah has been on the watch list and has been 'working his way toward the US' for a little over a year and half now, at least.
Then again...after the FBI cried wolf for so long, the wolf may actually have shown up.
Oh, here we go again. More border hysteria. Why is protecting the border and enforcing immigration laws so important? The only people who cross into the US are good people who do stuff Americans won't do. (Like blow up innocent civilians, fly planes into buildings, set off dirty bombs, shoot down airliners, etc.)
"I saw the FBI (6 Agents and a slew of police) apprehend an individual in the Arby's parking lot this morning. Could it be this guy???"
Nope. Just another Hillary Clinton donor. Nothing to see here. Moveon.com....moveon
This Rat Bast*rd Shukrijumah has been crossing the border for the last 3 yrs. He needs to stop relying on Allan Allan and get Tom Tom.
Arabic spanish translation:
La muerte a América! ¡Alá es gran!
I know there is a border Ping list, and a terrorism Ping list, but is there a Ping list for articles specifically involving terrorism and the border?
Allocate a few Delta down there.
Don't bother people...he drove past you four days ago in that Chevy.
Let's hope nobody violates his Civil Rights, for heavens sake.
Take no prisoners.
only doing the terrorism Americans just refuse to do - where's the harm?
I think it's been even longer than that!
IIRC, his name first popped up before 9/11 when a bunch of AQ and various other rats had a meeting in Central America.
Since then, his name pops up again and again...and again...
You would think he would have made it by now....
By Dan Eggen and Manuel Roig-Franzia
THE WASHINGTON POST -- The FBI launched a global manhunt Thursday for a suspected Saudi-born al-Qaida member who is feared to be planning terrorist attacks, even as federal agents fanned out across the country as part of a wartime plan to interview Iraqi nationals and arrest those in violation of immigration laws.
The FBI called Adnan El Shukrijumah, 27, an “imminent threat to U.S. citizens and interests” who is “suspected of planning terrorist activities.” One senior law enforcement official described him as a possible terror organizer in the style of Mohammed Atta, the ringleader of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, but authorities said they have no details on what kind of plot he might be involved in.
An alias used by El Shukrijumah “kept coming up in numerous places,” including interrogations of captured al-Qaida lieutenant Khalid Sheik Mohammed, one official said. El Shukrijumah is believed to have a connection, as yet unclear, to Jose Padilla, the American-born al-Qaida suspect held on charges he was plotting to explode a radiological bomb in the United States.
U.S. authorities also recovered a document that links an alias used by Shukrijumah to the same Oklahoma flight school where Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person in the United States charged as a conspirator in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, studied aviation, one official said. There is no evidence, however, that El Shukrijumah received pilot training in the United States, the official said.
As the U.S. invasion of Iraq began Thursday, FBI agents launched their effort to interview about 11,000 Iraqi nationals around the country in search of intelligence tips, while officers from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested others who were in violation of immigration laws. Authorities refused to reveal how many Iraqi nationals were taken into custody, but said they were concentrated among sizable Iraqi communities in Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Boston and San Diego, one immigration official said.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This story was published on Friday, March 21, 2003.
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