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Pursuit ofal-Qaeda
keeps coming
back to
Fla.
By
Richard Willing, USA TODAYHOLLYWOOD, Fla.
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This
spring,
FBI
agents searching
for
suspected al-Qaeda terrorist Adnan
El
Shukrijumah
homedin on
Hollywood/Pines
Boulevard,a
leafy
commercial stripin thesuburbsofFortLauderdale.
El
Shukrijumah,
a
trained pilot
who is the
focus
of a
worldwide
search,
attended
college
and
a mosque on the boulevard before disappearing in
2001.
Police look
for
fingerprintsat
a
Tampasandwichshop where
a man
resemblingal-Qaedasuspect
Adnan
El
Shukrijumah
was
spotted.
ByChris O'Meara,
APThe FBI
knew
the
street well.
In
the
spring
of
2001, agents
had
tracked
two
local
men who
traveled
up and
down
Hollywood/Pines
organizing
what they told an FBI
informant
would be an Islamic jihad, or holy war, of terror bombings
in
South Florida.The men, considered al-Qaeda "wannabes," tried
unsuccessfully
to persuade their
friend
El
Shukrijumah
to.
join
the
plot.
The
pair later pleaded guilty
to
terrorism conspiracy charges, apparently
without
realizing
El
Shukrijumah's
alleged standing
in
al-Qaeda.
After
Sept.
11,
2001, the FBI returned to
Hollywood/Pines.
This time, agents were tracing the steps of
hijacking
leader Mohamed Atta in the days before the deadliest terror attacks in U.S. history. Twoweeks before the hijackings, Atta went on the Internet at a Kinko's store on
Hollywood/Pines
Boulevard to buy a ticket for the
flight
he would crash into the World
Trade
Center. Five monthsearlier, one of the "wannabes,"
Imran
Mandhai, had gone to the same Kinko's to
print
copies of a
list
ofweapons.Tracking suspected Muslim terrorists
in
South Florida,
a
U.S. investigator there
says,
can
seem like
a
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Wahhabis
in the Old
Dominion
What
the
federal
raids
in
Northern
Virginia
uncovered.
b y
Stephen Schwartz
04/08/2002,
Volume 007,
Issue
29 -
Weekly StandardFEDERAL
LAW
ENFORCEMENT
has
kicked over
quite
an
anthill
in Northern
Virginia.
A
U.S.Treasury task force, Operation Green Quest, has been investigating the
funding
of Islamic terror. Raids
on
March20struckanextraordinary arrayof financial,charitable,andostensibly religious entities
identified
with MuslimandArab
concerns
inthis country, mostofthem headquarteredinNorthern
Virginia.Reaction
to theraids suggeststhe
Feds
inflicted
serious
injury
on theWahhabi lobby,theSaudi-backedextremistnetwork that largely controls Islam in America.
Officials
of the targeted groups as well astheir non-Muslim
apologists—notably
GOP
operativeGrover
Norquist,
the
chief
enabler
of
Islamicextremists seeking
access
to the
White
House-have
condemned
the
raids
as
civil rights violations.
The
convoluted system
of
interlocking directorates, global banking transactions,
and
ideological
activities
exposed in Northern Virginia will take time to sort out. Operation Green Quest has drawn
attention
to a previously overlooked aspect of support for extremism in this country: The principalthreat comes not from the thousands of working-class Arab immigrants in places
like
New Jersey and
Michigan
who contribute modest sums to the so-called Islamic charities, but from the Arab
elite.
TheSaudis stand behindall of it. Thekingdom pledged
$400
million last yearfor thesupportof"martyrs' families," according
to the
Saudi Embassy website.
At
$5,300
per
"martyr," that works
out to
about
75,000
martyrs, suggesting
the
Saudi princes anticipate
a lot
more suicide bombings than Israelhas yetsuffered.TheSaudis offereda
fraudulent
"peace" plan this year intendedtodivert attention
fromtheir
involvement
in the
horrors
of
September
11.
The keystone of the Saudi-sponsored Northern Virginia network is the Saar Foundation, created by
Suleiman
Abdul
Al-Aziz
al-Rajhi,
ascionof one of therichest Saudi families.TheSaar Foundationisconnected to
Al-Taqwa,
a shell company formerly based in Switzerland, where its leading figures
included
anotorious neo-NaziandIslamist, Ahmed Huber. Subsequently movedto theUnited States,
Al-Taqwa
wasshut down
after
September
11
and itsassets frozenbyU.S. presidential order.Butoperations continued,as theWahhabi lobby shiftedto itsbackup institutions here.Saar
has
also been linked
to
Khalid
bin
Mahfouz, former lead
financial
adviser
to the
Saudi royal
family
and ex-head of the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia. Mahfouz has been named byFrench intelligence
as a
backer
of
Osama
bin
Laden; Mahfouz endowed
the
Muwafaq Foundation,which U.S.
authorities
confirm
was an arm of bin
Laden's
terror
organization.
Muwafaq's
former chief,
Yassin
al-Qadi,
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"And
we
need
to
return
to
that kind
of
diplomatic
effort.
. .
,"
Beers
was
saying, over
the
droning sound.
His war
goes
on.
8) 5-Year Hunt Fails to Net Qaeda Suspect in Africa
By
DESMOND BUTLER
New York
TimesMOMBASA, Kenya — A recent urgent terrorism alert in Kenya is the latest frustrating chapter in a five-year
international manhuntfor one of theworld's
most
wantedQaeda suspects,American andKenyan
officials say.Thealert was issued in May
after
the suspect,
Fazul
Abdullah Muhammad, was sighted in Mombasa.
Investigators
say he has been an associate of Osama bin Laden since the early
1990's
and is the leader of
AlQaeda's
operations in East Africa.The
officials
said theyhadbeen pursuinghim —sometimes closeon hisheelssinceheemergedin theinvestigation of the bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in
1998.
What
has helped Mr. Muhammad evade capture, Western officials say, is Kenya's porous 420-mile border with
Somalia, an anarchic and lawless country
where
the American presence all but evaporated in the early
90's
after
a military debacle in which
18
G.l.'s
were
killed.
"In
East
Africa,
our most serious vulnerability is that we are neighboring the Somali Republic, a land with nogovernment,"Dave Mwangi, Kenya's permanent secretary for provincial administration of national security, saidin
an
interview
in
Nairobi.
"As
long
as
Somalia
remains that
way,
people
can
hide
there.
We have a
long,
porous
border, which
will
remain
a
threat."
One
result of the Sept. 11,
2001,
terrorist attacks in the United States was an American
effort
to re-establishsomeintelligence operations in Somalia. Now, with Mr. Muhammad's suspected use of Somali territory as ahiding place
and staging area, Western officials here
say,
the United States is
increasing
its involvement,
pursuing alliances with competing warlords in an
effort
to monitor ports and airfields.Kenyan officials saidMr.Muhammad audaciously returnedtoMombasa, formerlyhisbase,in Mayeven though
his
photograph had been circulated to the police throughout the country and the region. He has been accused in
the
attack here last November in which suicide bombers rammed an explosives-laden car into the ParadiseHotel,killing
13
people, as well as in an attempt to shoot down an Israeli passenger jet with a shoulder-firedmissile.Shortly
before
his appearance in Mombasa, Mr. Muhammad was spotted in a mosque in Mogadishu, the Somalicapital, according to Kenyan and Western officials.Since then Western antiterror agents, increasingly convinced that he and several Qaeda associates are usingSomalia as a sanctuary and transit point for weapons and explosives, have been working to persuade warlords
who
control key airfields to produce flight manifests and allow the monitoring of ports.
A
contingentofGerman surveillance planes basedinMombasais nowmonitoring shipsandcommunicationininternational waters along the Somali coast with the aid of Western intelligence agents in Somali ports and incoordination with American forcesinBahrain, accordingto aGerman military official. They have been searching
for
suspect
ships, including some identified as having ties to Qaeda business interests and operations,according to the official.
In
May, the State Department warned of the "credible threat" of another terrorist attack in Kenya, mentioning the
risk
of an assault using shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles.
After
a similar warning from the British government,
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