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"Police confirmed the increased security was in response to receiving information that a dirty bomb may go off around 34th street in Manhattan on Friday evening." Reuters
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FBI Terrorist Alert For This Man
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Adnan G. El Shukrijumah
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Adnan G. El Shukri Jumah, Abu Arif, Ja'far Al-Tayar, Jaffar Al-Tayyar, Jafar Tayar, Jaafar Al-Tayyar |
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August 4, 1975 |
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Black |
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Saudi Arabia |
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Black |
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5'3" to 5'6" |
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Male |
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132 pounds |
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Dark, Mediterranean |
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Average |
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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 United States with a Saudi, Canadian, or Trinidadian passport. |
DETAILS
Adnan G. El Shukrijumah is wanted in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States.
REWARD
The Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State, is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading directly to the capture of Adnan G. El Shukrijumah.
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SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS
IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS PERSON, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL FBI OFFICE OR THE NEAREST AMERICAN EMBASSY OR CONSULATE. |
ROBERT S. MUELLER, III
DIRECTOR
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
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Adnan al-Shukrijumah .. blends in with Americans, Hispanics and Middle Easterns.
Whomever safely finds him and calls the FBI to a successful apprehension will be $5 million dollars richer.
http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/elshukrijumah.htm
Video of him in the classroom
http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/adnan-text.htm
(He and) THESE INDIVIDUALS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED
AND DANGEROUS
IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THESE INDIVIDUALS, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL FBI OFFICE, THE NEAREST AMERICAN EMBASSY OR CONSULATE, OR SUBMIT A TIP THROUGH FBI.GOV.
http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/terrorismsi.htm
All credit for this alert and copy to:
118 posted on 08/10/2007 9:42:09 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author) AT FREEREPUBLIC.COM
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NYPD: Unverified Radiological Threat Made To NYC
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York city police increased security throughout Manhattan on Friday and at bridges and tunnels in response to what they called an “unverified radiological threat.”
But they said the city’s alert status for an attack was unchanged at “orange.”
The New York Police Department said in a statement it had increased the deployment of radiological sensors on vehicles, boats and helicopters and had set up vehicle checkpoints in lower Manhattan and at bridges and tunnels.
Police confirmed the increased security was in response to receiving information that a dirty bomb may go off around 34th street in Manhattan on Friday evening.
The Empire State Building, New York City’s tallest building, Madison Square Garden and Macy’s department store are in the 34th Street neighborhood.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the police had received the threat from the Internet but stressed there was no reason to believe this threat was any different from countless others since the September 11 attacks.
A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security in Washington said they assessed the radiological threat to New York as “unsubstantiated” and there was “no credible information telling us there is an imminent threat to the homeland at this time.”
New York has remained on an orange alert — the second highest such level, below red — since the September 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center.
New York police played down the increased security.
“It is stressed that these deployments are strictly precautionary and not the result of any verified threat,” NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said in a statement.
And Bloomberg also sought to soothe New Yorkers.
“Earlier this evening, the NYPD began taking several public precautionary measures visible to New Yorkers to guard against an unverified threat that was found on the Internet,” he said.
“These actions are like those that the NYPD takes every day — precautions against potential but unconfirmed threats that may never materialize,” Bloomberg said.
“As New Yorkers, we’ve gone about our lives even with the daily threat level at ‘orange’ every day since September 11, 2001. That threat level has not changed because of this unverified threat, and we shouldn’t let anyone terrorize us by spreading fear.”
At Herald Square, the heart of the 34th Street area, late on Friday evening, there was no visible sign of increased police security as New Yorkers went about their regular activities.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1026252120070811?pageNumber=1
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From NewsMax - July 16,2007
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/7/15/230035.shtml?s=lh
Chertoff’s ‘Gut Feeling’ Could Be a Nuclear Detonation
Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Paul Williams is the bestselling author of “Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World” – which details al-Qaida’s efforts to acquire and detonate nuclear devices on U.S. soil. In this special to NewsMax, Williams, a former FBI consultant, reveals what al-Qaida may be planning this summer.
Experiencing extreme intestinal discomfort, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in Chicago last week that America faces a heightened chance of an attack this summer.
“I believe we are entering a period this summer of increased risk,” Chertoff told the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board in a blunt assessment of America’s terror threat level.
“Summer-time seems to be appealing to them,” he said of al-Qaida. “We do worry that they are rebuilding their activities.”
Chertoff indicated his remarks were based on “a gut feeling” formed by past seasonal patterns of terrorist attacks, recent al-Qaida statements, and intelligence he did not disclose.
Days before Chertoff made this announcement, ABC News reported that a secret law enforcement report prepared for homeland security warns that al-Qaida is preparing a “spectacular” summer attack.
On Tuesday, ABC News also reported that “new intelligence suggests a small al-Qaida cell is on its way to the United States, or may already be here.”
Adding more fuel to the mounting fears, FBI Director Robert Mueller confirmed to NewsMax that al-Qaida intends to detonate a nuclear device that would kill millions of Americans. He said that the threat is so real he lies awake at night thinking about the effects of such an attack.
These unprecedented announcements are based on the realization that al-Qaida has achieved its goal of developing nuclear and radiological weapons for a simultaneous attack on seven to 10 American cities.
Bin Laden’s first purchase of nuclear material dates back to his stay in the Sudan. In 1993, he purchased a canister of weapons-grade uranium from black-market agents, including a Sudanese official, who obtained the material from Valindaba, a nuclear manufacturing facility near Pretoria in South Africa.
The uranium was tested at an al-Qaida laboratory in Khartoum. The canceled check for this transaction remains within the Alec File, the file on bin Laden at the CIA. The CIA agent in charge of the file was Michael Scheuer, who headed the agency’s bin Laden unit. Scheuer also authored the best-selling book “Imperial Hubris.”
Upon his return to Afghanistan, bin Laden made additional purchases of off-the-shelf nukes and nuclear material from the Chechen rebels, the Russian mafia, and various sources in the Ukraine, including international arms dealer Semion Mogilevich.
On one occasion, Mogilevich provided bin Laden and company with twenty kilos of uranium-236 that had been enriched to 85 percent — far above the standards of enrichment for weapons-grade material.
These sales have been verified by British, Israeli, Russian, Saudi and Pakistani intelligence, leading media sources (including The London Times and BBC), and U.N. weapons inspectors, such as Hans Blix.
Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, his favorite sidekick, have been open and candid about these purchases. On one occasion, Zawahiri quipped that such weapons were available from the former Soviet Union to anyone with $10 million.
In the wake of 9/11, empirical proof of the existence of bin Laden’s nuclear/radiological arsenal was uncovered in the caves of Kandahar where U.S. troops uncovered a canister of uranium-238 and at Turnak Farm (the al-Qaida underground laboratory on the outskirts of Kandahar) where CIA officials came upon jars of yellow cake (highly enriched uranium) and additional canisters of uranium-238.
On Oct. 11, 2001, Israel’s Mossad arrested a Pakistani operative who tried to smuggle a plutonium-implosion devise into Israel at the checkpoint at Ramallah.
The operative, who had ties to al-Qaida, later died of radiological poisoning. And two British agents managed to infiltrate al-Qaida from a London mosque. They were sent to Heart, Afghanistan, where they saw radiological bombs being prepared for the great jihad. The bombs were never recovered.
More evidence came with the arrest of Dr. Sultan Bashiruddin, the former Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, and Dr. Chaudry Abdul Majid, the chief engineer for the A.Q. Khan Research Laboratory.
These scientists admitted that they met with bin Laden, al-Zawahiri, and other al-Qaida officials on several occasions to offer technical assistance on the group’s “Manhattan Project.”
They testified that bin Laden had obtained enough weapons-grade material from the Ukraine to manufacture so-called “bespoke nukes” (devises with explosive yields in excess of 10 kiloton) and that many other scientists and technicians from Pakistan were in bin Laden’s employ.
News of the American Hiroshima — the plan to detonate seven nuclear devises in seven major U.S. cities — was uncovered from the laptop of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al-Qaida’s military operations chief, who was arrested in Karachi on March 2, 2003.
From the same source, coupled with “pocket litter” from prisoners and dead al-Qaida soldiers, U.S. officials learned
*** that the individual singled out to commandeer the attacks was Adnan el-Shukrijumah, a naturalized American citizen. ***
The FBI issued a BOLO (Be-on-the-lookout) for any sightings of el-Shukrijumah and placed a $5 million bounty on his head.
But the wily Adnan, who was trained as a pilot and a nuclear technician, has managed thus far to escape capture.
The threat of the American Hiroshima received tell-tale confirmation with the death of a Pakistani with ties to al-Qaida of radiological poisoning in Kearny, N.J.
More bad news about the planned attack came from al-Qaida agents who were arrested in Pakistan in the wake of the “Waziristan Summit” — a gathering of the al-Qaida high command in the tribal province of Pakistan during March and early April of 2004.
When questioned by CIA and ISI officials, Sharif al-Masri, one of the collared terrorists, said that several of bin Laden’s nukes had been forward deployed to Mexico for transport into the U.S. by Latino street gangs.
This report was supported by Hamid Mir, the only journalist to interview bin Laden and al-Zawahiri in the wake of 9/11.
Mir confirmed from his sources that the weapons had arrived in the U.S. and were being readied for the next attack on American soil.
He also said that he recently interviewed an Egyptian scientist who had lost an eye while testing one of bin Laden’s nuclear weapons in the Afghan province of Kunar.
Further alarms of al-Qaida nukes on American soil were sounded in recent months by British intelligence following the interrogation of 45 Muslim physicians involved in the recent terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow.
Will the American Hiroshima occur this summer?
The answer to this question is anyone’s guess.
Most experts agree that the bombs are in place and are being prepared for detonation. But the timing remains uncertain since bin Laden is a model of patience.
His favorite Islamic verse is as follows: “I will be patient until I out-patience patience.”
In the meantime, Chertoff needs more than a doze of Maalox. He may want to store up a supply of iodine tablets in order to survive what bin Laden and his boys have in store for him and the rest of us.
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NYPD Steps Up Dirty Bomb Precautions
Spokesman Says Threat ‘Unverified’
http://www.myfoxny.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4035178&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
Created: Friday, 10 Aug 2007, 10:11 PM EDT
The NYPD has modified its counter-terrorism posture Friday because of unverified intelligence regarding a dirty bomb risk.
This change includes an increased deployment of radiological sensors — including those mounted on vehicles, boats and helicopters as well as those carried by NYPD personnel.
In addition, vehicle checkpoints are being established in New York City, including lower Manhattan, and at certain approaches to the city from neighboring areas.
These efforts are not in response to a verified threat, the department spokesman said.
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July 30, 07
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lisnif0731,0,5187875.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines
BY JOSEPH MALLIA | joseph.mallia@newsday.com
4:56 PM EDT, July 30, 2007
They call it “Operation Highway Sniffer” — a military-style title for a series of anti-terrorist checkpoints set up by the Suffolk County police.
And it’s happening Monday on a Long Island Expressway rest stop.
The police will set up specialized equipment to detect radiation, explosives and other terror-related substances at a rest stop on the LIE, the location of which authorities asked not be disclosed, beginning at 3:30 p.m., police said.
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http://www.wnbc.com/news/13870142/detail.html
NYPD: Unverified Radiological Threat Made To NYC
UPDATED: 10:39 pm EDT August 10, 2007
NEW YORK — An unverified radiological threat was made against New York City Friday, but the city’s alert status remained at “orange” level.
The New York Police Department released the following statement:
“While the threat remains unverified, our counterterrorism posture, which is reconfigured daily based on intelligence from around the world, has been modified to include increased deployment of radiological sensors, including vehicle, marine and helicopter-mounted, as well as those carried by NYPD personnel.”
Additionally, vehicle checkpoints were established in the city, including lower Manhattan, and at certain approaches to the city from neighboring jurisdictions.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne stressed that the deployments were strictly precautionary and not the result of any verified threat
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http://www.1010wins.com/pages/797494.php?contentType=4&contentId=788208
Unverified Radiological Threat Made Against NYC
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Authorities were taking extra counterterrorism precautions Friday in response to what they said was an unsubstantiated radiological threat to the city.
Officials said they had not changed the city’s terror alert status in response to the online chatter mentioning a truck packed with radioactive material. Police had deployed extra radiological sensors on street, water and air patrols, and were stopping vehicles at checkpoints in lower Manhattan and around the city.
Deputy Police Commissioner Paul J. Browne called the measures “strictly precautionary.’’ He said the online posts were made following a video released Sunday that featured an American member of al-Qaida threatening foreign diplomats and embassies across the Islamic world.
“We are closely monitoring the situation,’’ said Homeland Security Department spokesman Russ Knocke. “There continues to be no credible information telling us that there’s a threat to the homeland at this time.’’
The FBI also said there was no credible threat.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the police measures were nothing out of the ordinary.
“These actions are like those that the NYPD takes every day — precautions against potential but unconfirmed threats that may never materialize,’’ he said in a statement.
STATEMENT FROM MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG ON NYPD PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES
“Over the last five years, the NYPD has dedicated more than 1,000 members of their ranks to counter-terrorism work. These NYPD personnel perform actions every day - some that are seen by the general public and some that are not - that have kept us all safe from terror attacks.
Earlier this evening, the NYPD began taking several public precautionary measures visible to New Yorkers to guard against an unverified threat that was found on the internet.
These actions are like those that the NYPD takes every day - precautions against potential but unconfirmed threats that may never materialize.
As New Yorkers, we have gone about our lives even with the daily threat level at “orange” every day since September 11, 2001.
That threat level has not changed because of this unverified threat, and we shouldn’t let anyone terrorize us by spreading fear.”
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With the raising of the national alert level from yellow to orange, the New York City Police Department has stepped up anti-terrorism precautions under Operation Atlas. Under Operation Atlas, the Police Department has launched a coordinated defense of the city, using regular patrols as well as police officers equipped with heavy weapons to safeguard landmarks, houses of worship, bridges, tunnels, subways, and the transportation system generally. The alert level in New York City was already at orange, indicting a high risk of attack. Operation Atlas has been underway since the war in Iraq began in March 2003. The staffing and assignments of Operation Atlas change with changing conditions.
Core elements of "Operation Atlas" are as follows:
INCREASED PERSONNEL DEPLOYMENT
- Increased deployments of Harbor, Aviation, and Emergency Service Units.
- COBRA (CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL OR RADIOLOGICAL ACTIONS) team deployments.
- SAMPSON team deployments.
- Harbor units increased protection of commuter ferries.
- Bomb sniffing dogs are assigned to the Staten Island Ferry.
- ARCHANGEL teams, composed of Emergency Services Personnel, bomb experts and investigators have been staged strategically in the city.
- HAMMER teams, police and fire department experts in hazardous materials, are deployed jointly.
- Heavily armed HERCULES teams are deployed randomly throughout the city.
- Counter assault teams in unmarked armored vehicles (“CAT CARS”) with heavily armed officers are deployed.
- Counter Terrorism inspectors are coordinating mobilization drills.
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TRANSIT SYSTEM SECURITY
- Transportation Bureau is working closely with the MTA and the Port Authority to ensure war-related precautions are in place.
- The National Guard is assisting in patrolling the subway system.
- Train Order Maintenance Sweeps,“TOMS”, are deployed to arrest fare evaders and others, who's initial low level offences are often precursors of more serious crimes in the subway system. TOMS may discourage or even intercept a terrorist attack.
- Mobile Arrest Processing Centers,MAPC BUSES, are on stand-by.
- Additional police officers are on patrolling high density transit locations such as Times Square, Grand Central, and Penn Station.
- Undercover teams are riding the subways.
- Radiation detection is being used in the subways.
- Conducting “SURGE RESPONSES” in which large numbers of officers saturate a given subway station.
- Highway patrol officers are on 12-hour tours.
- Checkpoints are in place along 96TH Street and at all bridges and tunnels into the city. Checkpoint locations are subject to unannounced change.
- Vehicles parked in front of sensitive locations are being towed.
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PATROL OPERATIONS/INCREASED COVERAGE
- Counter Terrorism inspectors are working 12-hour shifts guaranteeing round-the-clock coverage by executive staff.
- Deploying critical response vans to events, or simply to stop at certain locations, like hotels, restaurants, landmarks or tourist attractions.
- The Financial district is under intense 24-hour coverage.
- THE Counter Terrorism Bureau is supplying Terrorist-related updates to APPL, an association of New York City Corporate and Institutional Security Directors.
- Each Patrol Borough commander has stand alone plans in place to act as an autonomous police department should police headquarters command and control become disabled.
- Systematic citywide search for any radioactive material or devices.
- Prepared to use up to 4,000 school safety officer in the event of an emergency. This includes using them to evacuate children, as well as adults, from the schools and to transport police resources throughout the city. They may also be used to staff emergency shelters.
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- Daily assessments to determine which synagogues and other houses of worship may merit additional protection.
- Daily assessments to determine which hotels, museums, landmarks, and other attractions merit additional protection.
- Fuel depots in the greater metropolitan area are under greater surveillance.
- Intelligence personnel continue to brief garage owners and attendants about suspect vehicles that might be left at parking lots in Manhattan.
- In Cooperation with New Jersey authorities, sites in New Jersey where radioactive material could be stored clandestinely, in close proximity to NYC, are being inspected.
- Daily assessment regarding which foreign missions merit additional protection and which dignitaries may need added security.
- Reviewed the security at smaller airports in the metropolitan area to make sure general aviation is not used as a weapon against New York City.
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DEBKAfile Exclusive: New Al Qaeda threat of radioactive truck attacks naming New York, Los Angeles, Miami
August 12, 2007, 8:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
The threat was picked up by DEBKAfile’s monitors from a rush of electronic chatter on al Qaeda sites Thursday, Aug. 8.
The al Qaeda communications accuse the Americans of the grave error of failing to take seriously the videotape released by the American al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gaddahn last week. “They will soon realize their mistake when American cities are hit by quality operations,” said one message.
Another said the attacks would be carried out “by means of trucks loaded with radio-active material against America’s biggest city and financial nerve center.”
A third message mentioned New York, Los Angeles and Miami as targets. It drew the answer: “The attack, with Allah’s help, will cause an economic meltdown, many dead, and a financial crisis on a scale that compels the United States to pull its military forces out of many parts of the world, including Iraq, for lack of any other way of cutting down costs.”
There is also a message which speaks obliquely of the approaching attacks easing the heavy pressure America exerts on countries like Japan, Cuba and Venezuela.
DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources and monitors say there is no way of gauging for sure how serious these threats are, how real, or whether they are part of a war of nerves to give the Gaddahn tape extra mileage. But it is important to note that the exchange of messages took place over al Qaeda’s internal Internet sites and that they contained the threat of radioactive terror and specific American cities for the first time after a long silence on these subjects.
In addition, a growing number of clips has been disseminated of late over al Qaeda sites instructing the faithful how to design remote-controlled gliders, pack them with explosives and launch them against predetermined targets.
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