Who Is Al Qaeda Figure Linked to NYC Bomb Plot?
Although 34-year-old al Qaeda fugitive Adnan Shukrijumah has been among the FBI’s most sought after suspects for some time (7 years), this is the first time that formal, public charges have been levied against him. However, the scope the charges against Skurijumah, compared to his large al Qaeda profile, are rather small, limited to actions in the 16 months covering the time frame of the Najibullah Zazi-led NYC subway plot of 2009, from Sep. 2008 to Jan. 2010. (Interestingly, a sixth defendant’s name has been redacted from the new indictment). English speaking, Saudi-born Shukrijumah has been a subject of intrigue and worry for years – profiled in 60 Minutes II in 2003, a focus of a famous sound-the-alarm newser by former Attorney General John Ashcroft and (still) FBI Director Robert Mueller in 2004. He lived in the U.S. for 15 years, mostly in Florida, attending the same mosque as Al Qaeda recruit and alleged would-be “dirty bomber” Jose Padilla, and has carried passports from Canada,
