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Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah (, 2003 , 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 locationc FBI Seeking Information Alert for el Shukrijumah . El Shukrijumah is known to have a Guyanese passport but might also use a Saudi , Canadian , or Trinidadian passportc. Saudi Arabia has repeatedly denied that el Shukrijumah is a Saudi citizen Riyadh denies that el Shukrijumah is a Saudi . He is a small man at 5'3" to 5'6" and 132 pounds, and is asthmatic. He goes by nearly a dozen aliases, counting alternative spellings, such as Adnan G. el Shukri Jumah, Abu Arif, Ja'far al-Tayar, Jaffar al-Tayyar, Jafar Tayar, and Jaafar al-Tayyar. (''Al-Tayyar'' means ''the pilot''.) EARLY YEARS From the late 1980s , when he was a young teenager, he spent fifteen years in the United States . El Shukrijumah's mother lives in Florida . His father, a radical imam and former missionary for Saudi Arabia, died recently. Adnan G. el Shukrijumah learned some limited English later in his youth. As a young adult in 1997, he participated in an "English as a Second Language" class, during which he spoke passable but limited English. 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. Transcript of Adnan G. El Shukrijumah's Video , FBI, 1997, view video with Real Player , view mpg video with Windows Media Player But more ominously, also after el Shukrijumah reached young adulthood in the late 1990s , U.S. authorities believe that he may have been trained at an al-Qaeda terrorist camp. The FBI believes that el Shukrijumah was trained by al-Qaeda to operate as a terrorist organizer and operational/field commander and to lead or coordinate a terrorist assault, much the same way Mohammed Atta was designated and trained as an organizer and operational/field leader by al-Qaeda to lead the September 11 hijackers in killing 3,000 by attacking The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia and leveling the World Trade Center in Manhattan , New York City , New York . 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 (FAA). Obviously, this is of concern to law enforcement since virtually all the Al-Qaeda Hijackers involved in the September 11 Terrorist Attacks , received training to be pilots at U.S. private flight schools, at around the same time. NUCLEAR TERRORISM In June 2007 the FBI revealed El-Shukrijumah as being Al Quaeda's operations leader on a nuclear terror plot targeting the United States. (Associated Press and also FOX News) El-Shukrijumah is "reportedly the man Usama bin Laden tapped to lead a previous plot to detonate nuclear bombs simultaneously in several U.S. cities." (Associated Press and also FOX News ''follow previous link in this paragraph to see citations''). It is widely believed however, that although Al Quaeda created a team to develop nuclear terror plots targeting American Cities, that the organization has to date been unable to acquire the key materials necessary to carry out such attacks. SPRING 2003 WORLDWIDE ALERT The Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI) issued a worldwide alert for el Shukrijumah in the spring of 2003 shortly after the start of the March 2003 Invasion Of Iraq . It was during that time that the 9/11 mastermind Khaled Shaikh Mohammed was captured in Pakistan , and then named el Shukrijumah during his interrogation. Consequently, the FBI spearheaded a massive manhunt involving various municipal, state and federal Law Enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad to locate el Shukrijumah. El Shukrijumah was last seen in the Miami or southern Florida area in the early part of 2003. He has not been seen since and no one knows of his whereabouts. Rumors have circulated that authorities have also heard from eyewitnesses that he was seen in Northern Maine near the Canadian Border, and Honduras . SUMMER 2004 TERROR ALERT On , 2004 Posted: 8:19 PM EDT (0019 GMT) 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. The FBI does not know whether el Shukrijumah is working or traveling alone or if he is acting in concert with other al-Qaeda members as part of a terrorist cell. The FBI has stated that el Shukrijumah is likely to be armed and extremely dangerous. Though wanted desperately for questioning by the FBI, the FBI has not specifed the nature of threats el Shukrijumah poses to the U.S. though they believe el Shukrijumah may play a large and leading role in the next set of terrorist attacks to come upon the U.S. 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 , from the office of the Director Of National Intelligence , asserted that Jafar al-Tayyar was identified as el Shukrijumah by Abu Zubaydah . REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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