A BUSINESS daily newspaper in the United States has stated that Al Qaida is setting up one of its cells in Trinidad. In its January 23 publication, Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) stated that Al Qaida has launched a movement to replace the democratically-elected Government. IBD said that the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) are fearful that Trinidadian jihadists could train and export terrorists to strike the United States.
According to the newspaper, Trinidad might be harbouring the “next Mohammed Atta,” a college-educated English-speaking Saudi native known within Al Qaida as “Jafar the Pilot.” His real name was given as Adnan El Shukrijumah, and the FBI considers him “armed and dangerous.” He has been connected to Al Qaida plots to attack America with dirty bombs. The FBI’s website says Shukrijumah carries a Guyanese passport, but may attempt to enter the United States with a Trinidadian passport. His father is Guyanese, but he taught Arabic in mosques there and in Trinidad before moving to the US to work for the Saudi Embassy and then run a small radical mosque in Florida.
US authorities are worried that Caribbean blacks have been targeted by Al Qaida for Islmalic conversion and recruitment along with African-Americans.
http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,51570.html
Police dismantle pipe bomb at investment company office
1/31/07
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A pipe bomb that arrived in an investment company's mail was dismantled without incident Wednesday, and federal authorities were helping investigate the case, the FBI said.
Police were called about 11 a.m. to a midtown office building housing some operations of American Century Investments and found the device in a package that had been opened by an employee, FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza said. "It was a functional pipe bomb, and it contained a threat directed to American Century," Lanza said, declining to be more specific.
Officers from the Kansas City Police Department's bomb squad dismantled the device, and no one was injured, Lanza said. The site is a few blocks from American Century Investments' national headquarters building. Investigators from the FBI and the U.S. Postal Service are working on the case, Lanza said.
That's sad and scary about Trinidad. The Trinidadians are nice people. We have friends there.
I hope Al Quada's plot to convert that small island nation fails miserably.
D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel fought a fire that occurred on a bus traveling through downtown Washington early Wednesday morning. Witnesses say the fire broke out following an explosion that occurred just after it passed the Farragut North station located on "K" Street, Northwest. The incident occurred just after 5:30 a.m.
A local news station reported that there were three passengers and a driver on the bus when the explosion occurred. The people were able to get off the bus before the fire intensified. Personnel from the D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department quickly extinguished the flames. The disabled bus is located in the 17-hundred block of "K" Street, Northwest. The incident remains under investigation.
The incident did not affect Metrorail operations at either the Farragut North or Farrragut West stations which are both located nearby.
Suspicious luggage causes delays outside D.C.
Jan 31, 2007
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Hundreds of commuters who use the Washington area’s transit system endured delays Wednesday morning because of a slow investigation of suspicious items found near a Metrorail station just outside the nation’s capital.
About 3 a.m., a Metro employee spotted two suitcases and a backpack near the bus waiting area of the Braddock Road station in Alexandria. But the items sat there for at least two hours because the city’s police do not have a bomb squad and “apparently, they couldn’t get a hold of anybody from Metro (police) until after 5 a.m.,” Alexandria police Lt. James Bartlett said. The station was closed when the luggage was discovered and did not reopen until about 7:30 a.m.
Adding two links to your post 1896 (regarding Trinidad):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=trinidad
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/