Jack Foote
FBI admits Al Queda terrorists are crossing mexican border
Wed Aug 18, 2004 23:58
64.140.158.101

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Subject: FBI admits Al Queda terrorists are crossing mexican border
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:17:37 -0700
From: RR USA - Jack Foote volunteer@ranchrescue.com
Everyone:

There is a $5 million reward for this terrorist's capture, and he is expected to sneak across our border with mexico soon!

THIS is why we need troops on our borders. WHY do our federal and state governments continue to refuse to protect our nation?

The time has come to call up the Citizens Militia!

Jack Foote
Sierra Vista, AZ
National Spokesman for the Ranch Rescue Network
877-405-9946
http://www.ranchrescue.com

"Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience."

-- John Locke, 1690


Aug. 18, 2004
Qaeda leader may try to cross border

LUKE TURF
Tucson Citizen
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breaking/081804qaeda.html

A suspected al-Qaeda terror cell leader may be trying to enter the United States illegally from Mexico along immigrant smuggling routes, the FBI said yesterday.

A bulletin was distributed to the Mexican press from the U.S. consulate in Nogales, Son., on Monday offering a reward of up to $5 million for the capture of Saudi native Adnan G. El Shukrijumah. He is wanted in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States.
"He's probably the closest thing to a cell leader with plans to come into the United States to launch an attack," said Art Werge, an FBI spokesman in El Paso, where the bulletin was first issued to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez just across the border.

El Shukrijumah is trained in flight, explosives and terrorism operations and was allegedly sighted in Honduras earlier this year, Werge said. The sighting raised concerns El Shukrijumah might be trying to get into the United States.

In Nogales, the U.S. consulate's fraud investigator, Alberto Chapetti, said the consulate received the bulletin yesterday and released it to Mexican media as instructed.

"We got a notification from diplomatic security to give notification to the local press that (El Shukrijumah) may try to cross from Mexico to the U.S. side," Chapetti said.

According to the FBI Web site, El Shukrijumah is believed to be 29 years old. He has black hair and black eyes, was born in Saudi Arabia, and weighs about 132 pounds - though he may be heavier now. He has an average build and occasionally wears a beard.

He has a "pronounced" nose, is asthmatic and speaks English, according to the Web site.

The Border Patrol received the bulletin and distributed it to all its sectors, including Tucson, said Bureau of Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman Gloria Chavez.

"When we receive law enforcement bulletins such as these we take them very seriously," Chavez said. "We do our best to keep all our agents informed so they are able to be more vigilant and alert."

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office was not aware of the alert yesterday, although the agency normally gets such notices, said Sheriff Tony Estrada.

Santa Cruz County deputies have received similar bulletins and are always on the lookout for possible terror suspects who may have crossed the border illegally in the 50 miles of border under his jurisdiction, Estrada said.

"It's probably forthcoming or just slipped through the cracks," he said. "I'm not saying that they haven't sent it, we just haven't gotten it yet."

According to the Web site of the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, El Shukrijumah's family lives in South Florida. Attempts to reach them yesterday were unsuccessful.

Werge said FBI officials believe El Shukrijumah may have traveled through islands off the coast of Venezuela, including Trinidad. The FBI Web site warns he may try to enter the United States with a passport from Trinidad, Guyana, Canada or Saudi Arabia and that he should be considered armed and dangerous.

Andrea Simmons, the FBI's special agent in charge and assistant media coordinator in El Paso, said this is the third time in two years the agency has put out a bulletin concerning El Shukrijumah. She said it also was distributed to border-area law enforcement agencies.

Terrorists sneaking across the border along smuggling routes are a major concern to Glenn Spencer, president of the American Border Patrol, a border watchdog group based in Sierra Vista.

The 67-year-old Spencer's group has snuck fake weapons of mass destruction about the size of a suitcase over the Mexican border fence to prove the country's susceptibility to such an attack.

"I am delighted that our government is concerned about the possibility of terrorists coming across the border," Spencer said.

"At the same time I think we must question the sincerity of these alerts when our government does not take the steps to stop the penetration across the border. It seems to me that the emphasis is on intelligence, which has failed us in the past, instead of defense, physical and immediate."

Spencer's group advocates militarizing the border.

One man who managed to "surreptitiously" enter the United States from Mexico has been accused of being a member, fighter, recruiter and fund-raiser for Hizballah (often spelled Hezbollah), a foreign terrorist organization also known as Islamic Jihad and Ansar Allah, according to an indictment at the U.S. District Court in Michigan.

Mahmoud Youssef Kourani operated in Lebanon before crossing the Mexican border in February 2001, according to the indictment.

Warnings such as the El Shukrijumah bulletin cause Arabs in the community to be "anxious and nervous," said Muhammad As'ad, administrator of the Islamic Center of Tucson.

"If anyone like this ever showed up (in Tucson) and we found out about them we'd notify the authorities," As'ad said. "I would hope that the Muslim community south of the border would do the same thing."

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Borderland Tuesday, August 17, 2004

FBI looks for possible terrorists along the border.

Louie Gilot
El Paso Times

http://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/borderland/0817-story1.shtml

A Saudi terrorist suspect might be making his way to the U.S.-Mexico border amid groups of undocumented immigrants, officials with the FBI and the U.S. Embassy said.

Officials on both sides of the border have asked law enforcement officials, including Border Patrol agents and El Pasošs bridge inspectors, as well as the community at large to be on the lookout for Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, 29, a native of Saudi Arabia who may be using a Guyanese, Canadian or Trinidadian passport.

Shukrijumah was spotted in Honduras earlier this year, FBI officials said, and used to reside in Trinidad and Tobago, off the coast of Latin America. "He is believed to be one of the most dangerous cell leader below the leadership of al-Qaeda who plans to hurt the United States," Art Werge, spokesman for the FBI in El Paso, said.

Officials said Shukrijumah might be using immigrant-smuggling routes through Central America and Mexico to get to the border.

Shukrijumah has reportedly received training in aircrafts and explosives, Werge said. He is about 132 pounds, 5-foot-3 to 5-foot-5 and occasionally wears a beard. He speaks English.

There is a $5,000 reward for information leading to his capture.

For more information, visit, www.fbi.gov.

Louie Gilot may be reached at lgilot@elpasotimes.com , 546-6131.



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Jack Foote
Sierra Vista, AZ
National Spokesman for the Ranch Rescue Network
877-405-9946
http://www.ranchrescue.com

"Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience."

-- John Locke, 1690

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