FBI still wants alleged 'Guyanese' terrorist
Stabroek News
January 4, 2004
In the wake of heightened security alerts in the United States, the alleged terrorist with a Guyanese passport remains a 'person of interest' to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The FBI is seeking Saudi-born Adnan Gulshair Moha-med El Shukrijumah, 28, although he is not on the bureau's most wanted terrorist list. He is listed on the FBI website as one of the persons on whom the bureau is "seeking information".
Last year, the FBI placed him on a 'Be on the Lookout' (BOLO) list, saying that Jose Padilla, the alleged dirty bomber, who had been in custody at the time, had identified him as an Al Qaeda operative.
The FBI said that El Shukrijumah was in the United States prior to September 11 and his current whereabouts are unknown. FBI officials said they believed that El Shukrijumah trained as a pilot, but his father Gulshair Mohamed denied that.
The police in Guyana had confirmed last year that El Shukrijumah was entitled to a Guyanese passport because his father was a Guyanese by birth. The police also confirmed that El Shukrijumah had been issued with two Guyanese passports over the years.
In March 2003, Stabroek News spoke by telephone to his father who lives in Miramar, South Florida.
He had told Stabroek News that at the time his son had been living in Morocco where he worked as an English teacher. The elder Mohamed had been asked to resign from his job at a mosque in Florida because of the concerns over his son. He had lived on the East Bank Demerara prior to his migration in the 1960s.