Posted on 09/14/2003 9:56:31 PM PDT by piasa
BOSTON -- The FBI has issued an alert, asking the public to be on the lookout for four Middle Eastern men the agency wants for questioning on terrorist matters and they may be in New England.
The FBI in Portland, Maine has alerted State Police that a witness may have seen two men who resembled the wanted men in that area.
The witness spotted them in Naples, Maine, just northwest of Portland, last Sunday around 4 p.m. They were heading south on Route 302.
The witness told police the two men were driving a late-model, slate-gray BMW with Massachusetts plates.
The bureau has posted photographs on of the four men on its Web site.
They are identified as Zubayr Al-Rimi, 29, married to Hanan Raqib, a Morrocan, and Karim El Mejjati, who has given his age as 36. Mejjati's birthplace is listed as Morocco.
"El Mejjati owns a passport which was issued in France, and his last known entry into the United States occurred between 1997 and 1999. He may also wear a beard and mustache," according to the FBI Web site.
Another man is identified as Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, who has given Saudi Arabia as his birthplace and has given his age as 28. According to the FBI, "El Shukrijumah occasionally wears a beard. He has a pronounced nose and is asthmatic. El Shukrijumah speaks English and carries a Guyanese passport, but may attempt to enter the U.S. with a Saudi, Canadian, or Trinidadian passport."
A fourth man wanted for questioning is identified as Abderraouf Jdey, who was "found with a suicide letter," according to the FBI Web site. His age has been given as 38 and his birthplace, Tunisia. The bureau says Jdey may be using a passport which was issued in Montreal, Canada, and he is being sought in connection with possible terrorist threats in the United States. According to the FBI, these individuals should be considered armed and dangerous and they are asking anyone with any information about the men to contact their local FBI office.
Good ol' Trinidad... first we have the Libyans backing an Islamic coup right in our own hemisphere ... then we have arms smugglers working from there... and now another Trinidad connection shows up.
Well, that should cut it down to only a couple million possibilities.
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