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It was a big score, but they were hoping to snag even bigger quarry.
From FoxNews, with thanks to all who sent this in:
NEW YORK — Al Qaeda's reported nuclear whiz kid — a "tantalizing terror figure" with a $5 million bounty on his head — was the figure investigators had hoped to snag in their 18-month probe of a plot to blow up a New York airport, the New York Post reported Monday.The name of Adnan Gulshair el-Shukrijumah, reportedly the man Usama bin Laden tapped to lead a previous plot to detonate nuclear bombs simultaneously in several U.S. cities, came up at several points in taped conversations during the probe, law-enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told the paper.
Three Muslim men were nabbed Friday in the alleged plan to attack John F. Kennedy International Airport, which involved exploding a jet-fuel pipeline that snakes from New York to New Jersey. A fourth suspect is at large.
Given Shukrijumah's notoriety in the terror world and the fact that he grew up in Guyana, as did three of the suspects, investigators immediately homed in on him, the Post reported.
"We thought he could be the invisible hand. He's always in the shadows, particularly in [the Caribbean]. He's passed through it, he's known, his name came up in the conversations," one law-enforcement official told the Post. "He would have been the prize."
Posted by Robert at June 4, 2007 1:41 PM
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It would be nice to have caught or killed Adnan Gulshair el-Shukrijumah; but he would just be replaced by another "tantalizing terror figure".
el-Shukrijumah will never travel to the U.S. where our law enforcement officials could arrest him. He doesn't need to, he's got many lower-ranking henchmen ready to come here. Some are already here. Some were born here.
It would be better if we did not allow these jihadists into our country, whether they are from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, or Trinidad and Tobago. Their country of origin is not important; the belief-system that motivates them is.
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at June 4, 2007 2:30 PM
From the FNC link
Authorities said the JFK scheme was an example of homegrown terrorism. The man accused of being the mastermind, Defreitas, 63, immigrated to the U.S. more than 30 years ago, but he told the federal informant that his feelings of disgust toward his adopted homeland had lingered for years.
"Before terrorism started in this country," he said in one secretly recorded conversation.
Just like Qutb, he hated the US and all we are.
Posted by: interestinconundrum at June 4, 2007 3:14 PM
It is clear that it would be truer to say that "we must fight them over here so as to reduce the need to fight them over there" than the reverse. Not, of course, that the two kinds of fighting, with two kinds of weaponry, need have any necesary connection.
Posted by: Hugh at June 4, 2007 4:50 PM
"his feelings of disgust toward his adopted homeland"
Talk about disgust...Islam gives evil people the go ahead to murder in Gods name.
Posted by: Joe Schmoe USA at June 4, 2007 8:26 PM
Shukrijumah has been here...multiple times, aided and abetted by safehouses (some now closed down), which is public record, and he will be here again...all brought to us by that age-old absolute opposite, and enemy of, common sense:
political correctness.
at June 5, 2007 1:41 AM
Two themes I'm picking up from the government & mainstream media:
1) These guys were silly. Their plan coulld not of worked.
2) If it's not al-Queda, it's not terrorism.
Posted by: MontyRockIV at June 5, 2007 12:15 PM
That depends on who's saying what...NYslimes applies in #1 since it buried the story on Sunday's page 37 (when everyone else had it on page 1), and its cronies reek of their own militant political agenda.
#2 is the product of political correctness, which is virtually the same, only not as narrowly focused.
at June 5, 2007 1:00 PM
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