Adnan El-Shukrijumah: Profile

el-Shukrijumah, Adnan

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Adnan el-Shukrijumah was born in Guyana on 4 August 1975. The first born of Gulshair el-Shukrijumah, a 44 year old radical Muslim cleric, and his 16 year old wife. In 1985 Gulshair migrated to the US, where he assumed duties as the Imam of the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn.

In the early 1990s, Sheik Gulshair el-Shukrijumah was assigned to al Farouq mosque in Brooklyn New York. Two terror plots were linked to that mosque. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and the plot to blow up the UN and Holland tunnels and other landmarks.

1995 the el Shaukrijumah family relocated to Miramar Florida, where Gulshair became the religious leader of the Masjid al Hijah mosque, and where Adnan became friends with Jose Padilla, who planned to detonate a radiological bomb in midtown Manhattan. Mandhai Jokhan who was convicted of attempt to blow up nuclear power plants in south Florida and other terrorists.

April 2001 Shukrijumah spent 10 days in Panam,a where he met with al Qaeda officials to assist in the planning of 9/11. He also traveled to Trinidad and Guyana, where virulent al Qaeda cells have been set up. The following month he obtained an associate degree in computer engineering from Broward community college.

May 2001 Shukrijumah got passports from Guyana, Trinidad, Saudi Arabia, Canada and the US. He also began to use a number of aliases including Abu Arifi, Jafar al Tayyar, Jaafar al Yayyar, Ja'far al Tayar and Mohammed sher Mohammed Khan. The name that appeared on his official FBI file. He traveled to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where he met with Ramzi Binalshibh, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other members of the al Qaeda high command. He also spent time within al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, where he received training in explosives and special operations.

11 September 2001 Adnan Shukrijumah attended flight schools in Florida and Norman Oklahoma, along with Mohammed Atta and other 9/11 terrorists. He became a highly skilled commercial jet pilot but he, like Atta and the other terrorists did not apply for a license with the Federal Aviation commission.