Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah
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Adnan G. El Shukrijumah

Born in Saudi Arabia, Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah (Arabic: عدنان شكري جمعة‎) (born August 4, 1975) is an alleged member of al-Qaeda, who grew up in the United States.¹

In March 2003, a provisional arrest warrant was issued calling him a "material witness", and he was subsequently listed on the FBI Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list², and since then United States Department of State, through the Rewards for Justice Program, has offered a bounty of up to US$5 million for information about his location¹³.

Last known to have lived with his family in Miramir, Florida,⁴ Shukrijumah is known to have a Guyanese passport but might also use a Saudi, Canadian, or Trinidadian passport¹. Saudi Arabia has repeatedly denied that el Shukrijumah is a Saudi citizen ⁵. He is a small man at 5'3" to 5'6" and 132 pounds, and is asthmatic. He also goes by the names Abu Arif, and Jafar al-Tayyar, the latter translating to "Jafar the Pilot".^{citation needed}

Early years

Adnan G. El Shukrijumah

Shukriumah moved to the United States in the 1980s as a young teenager with his parents. His mother still resides in Florida, while his father died following a career as an Imam.^{citation needed}.

Shukrijumah learned English later in his youth. As a young adult in 1997, he participated in an "English as a Second Language" class. The FBI obtained a videotape of Adnan G. El Shukrijumah from the period, which shows him giving a presentation as an exercise to the class, in which he spoke at length on the subject of how to jump start a car.⁶

In the late 1990s, U.S. authorities believe that he may have been trained at an Afghan training camp. The FBI believes that el Shukrijumah was trained by al-Qaeda to operate as a field commander.^{citation needed} He is alleged to have received assistance from American neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui.⁴

Flight training

El Shukrijumah received extensive flight training in the late 1990s or early 2000s at a flight school in Florida and is a pilot, though he is not registered with the Federal Aviation Administration.^{citation needed}

PBS has stated that Shukrijumah left USA in May 2001 after receiving a degree from a "college in Florida" where he studied "computer engineering" not flight training.⁷

In June 2007 Fox News claimed Shukrijumah was "Al Qaeda's operations leader on a nuclear terror plot targeting the United States" stating that Osama bin Laden had chosen him "to detonate nuclear bombs simultaneously in several U.S. cities."⁸

2003 worldwide alert

In March 2003, his family's Florida home was the subject of an FBI search which yielded no evidence of his location.⁴

In September 2003, the FBI issued an alert for four people they alleged "pose a threat to U.S. citizens", including Abderraouf Jdey, Shukrijumah and the previously unknown Zubayr al-Rimi and Karim el-Mejjati.⁹

In October, the FBI issued a report stating that Amer el-Maati, Jaber A. Elbaneh and Anas al-Liby had all been seen around Hamilton, Ontario the previous year, and that Shukrijumah had been seen at McMaster University seeking material necessary for a dirty bomb under the guise of being a student.¹⁰

Summer 2004 terror alert

On May 26, 2004, United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller announced that reports indicated that el Shukrijumah was one of seven al-Qaeda members who were planning terrorist actions for the summer or fall of 2004. The other alleged terrorists listed on that date were Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani (who was later captured in Pakistan), Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, and Amer el-Maati, Aafia Siddiqui, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, and Abderraouf Jdey. The first two had been listed as FBI Most Wanted Terrorists since 2001, indicted for their roles in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings. Jdey had already been on the FBI's "Seeking Information" wanted list since inception on January 17, 2002, to which Shukrijumah had also been later added, and the other three as well. ¹¹

On June 30, 2004, it was announced by the Honduran Security Ministry that el Shukrijumah, who had been in Honduras at some time during the previous month, had plotted to attack the Panama Canal in an attempt to hamper shipping trade and boat traffic.^{citation needed}

Though wanted desperately for questioning by the FBI, the FBI has not specifed the nature of threats el Shukrijumah poses.

His parents claim that he now lives in Morocco with his wife and children. They maintain their son's innocence.

Identified by Abu Zubaydah

A Summary of the High Value Terrorist Detainee Program, from the office of the Director of National Intelligence, asserted that Jafar al-Tayyar was identified as el Shukrijumah by Abu Zubaydah.¹²

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