Boston street gang M-13 cited as "true terror threat" - linked to Al Qaeda & Adnan Sh
Militant Islam Monitor > Articles > Boston street gang M-13 cited as "true terror threat" - linked to Al Qaeda & Adnan Shukrijumah
Boston street gang M-13 cited as "true terror threat" - linked to Al Qaeda & Adnan Shukrijumah
Street gangs helping to smuggle terrorists from Mexico into the U.S.
January 7, 2005
MIM: The news that a Boston street gang of Salvadorians has been meeting with Al Qaeda members to help smuggle terrorists in the US is a sign of an escalating threat which emphasizes the urgency of cracking down on illegal immigration and the need for increased vigilance on the part of all Americans. According to the reports below Boston street gang MS-13 appears to have gone into business with Al Qaeda who is willing to pay millions of dollars to smuggle people into the US. A half year ago it was reported that Adnan Shukrijumah, the Saudi born fugitive from Miramar Florida, who was identified by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and is regarded as 'Mohammed Atta's sucessor' by law enforcement was attempting to reach the United States via Mexico, and had been spotted in Costa Rica. http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/249
The hunt for Shukrijumah took on added urgency last year when fellow Florida resident and 'dirty bomber' wanabee Jose Padilla revealed that he been training with explosives together with Shukrijumah in Pakistan . They had planned to return to Florida and rent several adjacent apartments in a high rise buildings, seal the windows and turn on the gas which would be ignited to cause a massive explosion. The plot was scrapped after Shukrijumah and Padilla parted ways due to 'personality conflicts'. Shukrijmah's family still lives in Miramar, next door to the Masjid Al Hijrah where his father was the Imam. After Adnan Shukrijumah was named an Al Qaeda fugitive, his father Gulshair was 'fired' from the mosque and made an assistent director of Shamshuddin Islamic Center in North Miami Beach, which was run by Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout of AMANA- the American Muslim Society of North America . http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/143
In addition to Florida, which was home to many of the 9/11 hijackers Boston has been a flourishing terrorist haven,(note the recent controversy over the plans for expanding the Hub mosque- the Islamic Society of Boston, and ties to Al Qaeda going back more then a decade), and it should be noted that another Al Qaeda fugitive, a woman called Aafia Siddiqui had been a student in Boston where she studied at M.I.T. Besides being sought for aiding and abetting Adnan Shukrijumah, Siddiqui was also linked to his recently deceased father, Gulshair, in a series of payments from the Saudi embassy.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4661093/
According to Newsweek investigative reporters Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball in "New Questions about Saudi Money and Bandar " ;
"...The federal commission investigating 9/11 was also recently briefed on developments, sources say. U.S. officials stress that they have identified no evidence of any knowing Saudi aid to terrorist groups. But they express frustration at their inability to penetrate a number of large and seemingly irregular transactions. "There's a lot of money moving in a lot of directions—maybe not all that carefully," said one senior law-enforcement official. "Everyone wants to get to the bottom of it."
Among the payments that have drawn scrutiny, documents show, were $19,200 in checks between December 2000 and January 2003 from the Saudi Embassy to an Islamic cleric, Gulshair Muhammad al-Shukrijumah. The Florida-based imam has been on the FBI's radar screen for some time: he once testified on behalf of convicted terrorist Clement Hampton-El. The imam's son, Adnan G. al-Shukrijumah, also known as "Jafar the Pilot," is a suspected Qaeda operative who is the subject of a worldwide FBI manhunt. A Saudi spokesman said Gulshair al-Shukrijumah was a Saudi-funded "missionary" whose payments were terminated last year.
Another area of FBI inquiry involves $70,000 in wire transfers on July 10, 2001, to two Saudis in Massachusetts. One of the Saudis wrote a $20,000 check that same day to a third Saudi who had listed the same address as Aafia Siddiqui, a microbiologist who is believed to have been a U.S. operative for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. A Saudi spokesman said the wire transfers had no connection to Siddiqui and were used to pay educational and medical expenses for Saudi families in the United States. But bureau officials say the matter remains under active investigation; a government document shows the bulk of the funds were wired to an account in Saudi Arabia.
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/372
Militant Islam Monitor > Articles > Boston street gang M-13 cited as "true terror threat" - linked to Al Qaeda & Adnan Shukrijumah
Boston street gang M-13 cited as "true terror threat" - linked to Al Qaeda & Adnan Shukrijumah
Street gangs helping to smuggle terrorists from Mexico into the U.S.
January 7, 2005
MIM: The news that a Boston street gang of Salvadorians has been meeting with Al Qaeda members to help smuggle terrorists in the US is a sign of an escalating threat which emphasizes the urgency of cracking down on illegal immigration and the need for increased vigilance on the part of all Americans. According to the reports below Boston street gang MS-13 appears to have gone into business with Al Qaeda who is willing to pay millions of dollars to smuggle people into the US. A half year ago it was reported that Adnan Shukrijumah, the Saudi born fugitive from Miramar Florida, who was identified by 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and is regarded as 'Mohammed Atta's sucessor' by law enforcement was attempting to reach the United States via Mexico, and had been spotted in Costa Rica. http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/249
The hunt for Shukrijumah took on added urgency last year when fellow Florida resident and 'dirty bomber' wanabee Jose Padilla revealed that he been training with explosives together with Shukrijumah in Pakistan . They had planned to return to Florida and rent several adjacent apartments in a high rise buildings, seal the windows and turn on the gas which would be ignited to cause a massive explosion. The plot was scrapped after Shukrijumah and Padilla parted ways due to 'personality conflicts'. Shukrijmah's family still lives in Miramar, next door to the Masjid Al Hijrah where his father was the Imam. After Adnan Shukrijumah was named an Al Qaeda fugitive, his father Gulshair was 'fired' from the mosque and made an assistent director of Shamshuddin Islamic Center in North Miami Beach, which was run by Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout of AMANA- the American Muslim Society of North America . http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/143
In addition to Florida, which was home to many of the 9/11 hijackers Boston has been a flourishing terrorist haven,(note the recent controversy over the plans for expanding the Hub mosque- the Islamic Society of Boston, and ties to Al Qaeda going back more then a decade), and it should be noted that another Al Qaeda fugitive, a woman called Aafia Siddiqui had been a student in Boston where she studied at M.I.T. Besides being sought for aiding and abetting Adnan Shukrijumah, Siddiqui was also linked to his recently deceased father, Gulshair, in a series of payments from the Saudi embassy.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4661093/
According to Newsweek investigative reporters Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball in "New Questions about Saudi Money and Bandar " ;
"...The federal commission investigating 9/11 was also recently briefed on developments, sources say. U.S. officials stress that they have identified no evidence of any knowing Saudi aid to terrorist groups. But they express frustration at their inability to penetrate a number of large and seemingly irregular transactions. "There's a lot of money moving in a lot of directions—maybe not all that carefully," said one senior law-enforcement official. "Everyone wants to get to the bottom of it."
Among the payments that have drawn scrutiny, documents show, were $19,200 in checks between December 2000 and January 2003 from the Saudi Embassy to an Islamic cleric, Gulshair Muhammad al-Shukrijumah. The Florida-based imam has been on the FBI's radar screen for some time: he once testified on behalf of convicted terrorist Clement Hampton-El. The imam's son, Adnan G. al-Shukrijumah, also known as "Jafar the Pilot," is a suspected Qaeda operative who is the subject of a worldwide FBI manhunt. A Saudi spokesman said Gulshair al-Shukrijumah was a Saudi-funded "missionary" whose payments were terminated last year.
Another area of FBI inquiry involves $70,000 in wire transfers on July 10, 2001, to two Saudis in Massachusetts. One of the Saudis wrote a $20,000 check that same day to a third Saudi who had listed the same address as Aafia Siddiqui, a microbiologist who is believed to have been a U.S. operative for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. A Saudi spokesman said the wire transfers had no connection to Siddiqui and were used to pay educational and medical expenses for Saudi families in the United States. But bureau officials say the matter remains under active investigation; a government document shows the bulk of the funds were wired to an account in Saudi Arabia.
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/372