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FBI Feared JFK Plotters Linked to Top Terrorist
June 02, 2007 12:51 PM
FBI agents feared but never confirmed the three men accused of plotting to attack John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York were linked to one of the most wanted al Qaeda leaders, Adnan Shukrijumah, known to have operated out of Guyana and Trinidad.
Officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com that they heard repeated references to "Adnan" during the extensive wiretaps conducted on the suspects' telephone conversations, including calls to Guyana and Trinidad.
There is a $5 million reward for information on Shukrijumah, who officials consider extremely dangerous because of the years he spent living in the Miami area and his known ties to al Qaeda. Some of the 9/ll hijackers attended a south Florida mosque run by Shukrijumah's now deceased father.
Shukrijumah left the United States just a few months before September 2001.
A FBI spokesperson in Miami said the squad assigned to track Shukrijumah was aware of the case but that "no connection" to the wanted al Qaeda suspect was found in the JFK case.
The spokesperson said the best available information is that Shukrijumah is with top al Qaeda leaders along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Authorities in New York today announced arrests in the ongoing counterterror investigation of a plot to blow up the jet fuel pipeline that runs through JFK Airport, officials said.
The plot, authorities stress, was not at an operational stage, and the plotters, who included a former airport employee, had no ability to execute it.
The investigation, which appears to have been ongoing for at least two years, was brought to a conclusion when one suspect was about to leave jurisdictions where U.S. authorities had the ability to monitor his activities.
Sources said the plotters had "indirect" links to overseas terror elements, and the plot had links to Guyana, Trinidad and possibly Germany.
Vic Walter contributed to this report.
This post has been updated.
June 2, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (23)
Isn't Shukrijumah linked to a plot to nuke multiple cities in the US.
Posted by: John | Jun 2, 2007 4:32:20 PM
Google is starting a new service of photos from inside our cities.
After this most recent JFK incident don't you think this is not a needed service. The only ones who need this service are future terrorists to make their surveillance jobs easier. Don't we get it yet!!
The terrorists pay attention to our weaknesses within our free society and use every one of them to their advantage.
Posted by: seth-deborah | Jun 2, 2007 5:55:44 PM
Yes, and that is why we must destroy our free society immediately! Before our enemies do it! I don't see any other solution! I'm too terrorfied of all this dangerous freedom I've been given!
Posted by: Benjamin | Jun 2, 2007 6:17:06 PM
I pastor a church in this country and I would like to say it is time for the people to realize we are nothing but blinded when it comes to the facts. We are becoming junkies for propaganda. We need to let the fbi and the the news media who plays with our minds with this junk that is only to get people to side with there idiotic attemps to cause us to fear. I think the american public would revolt if they knew the facts about all this make beleive threts that we are supposedly getting. I would really like to know who makes all these lies up. I just pray to God its not someone we have trust and voted in no matter what his title is. WAKE UP AMERICA AND THINK FOR YOURSELVES.
Thank you
TIRED OF THE LIES
Posted by: bc | Jun 2, 2007 10:37:10 PM
...and the demoncrack party continues to laugh at the thought that another 9/11 or worse cannot happen again. This is not the first. There has been numerous attempts by muslim terrorist on our soil since 9/11 but the demoncrack party turns a deaf ear and a blind eye.
Posted by: Dr Jack Ryan | Jun 2, 2007 11:18:57 PM
To: bc
you are living in lala land
Posted by: Dr Jack Ryan | Jun 2, 2007 11:22:57 PM
wwz said:
"When are the so called tough-guy Republicans going to get a spine and start protecting America instead of projecting their fears onto everyone else?"
Well, wwz,
your sorry Demoncrack party is in power know, remember?
Posted by: Dr Jack Ryan | Jun 2, 2007 11:25:56 PM
"we are nothing but blinded when it comes to the facts" - bc
Maybe YOU are "blinded" when it comes to the facts, bc...
"We are becoming junkies for propaganda" Maybe YOU are a "propaganda junkie", bc...
"I think the american public would revolt if they knew the facts about all this make beleive threts that we are supposedly getting"
okay, one...it's spelled t-h-r-e-a-t-s, two, the threat is real, my friend...stop kidding yourself.
And does the fbi and the media REALLY "play with your mind"? lol
What kind of idiot would sit in church every week and listen to your crap? Really, man...
Posted by: Jazz | Jun 3, 2007 10:50:21 AM
There is nothing we can do to stop anything but to get on our knees and pray to our Holy Father who is in His Holy Temple. God said mans ways will come to nothing. Wake up and start looking up. This is Satans stage. Did you ever wonder what we are being Saved from????
Posted by: ila davis | Jun 3, 2007 11:48:08 AM
Where is Rev. Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, George Bush, Couric, Gibson, Roberts, Barbara Walters, Rosie O'Donnel, Donald Trump, Rush Limbaugh, Larry King and all the rest????? Why is this the first time I am hearing about this? Where is the public outrage that rightfully should be happening? Good heavens....compare this to the 'Duke Rape Case' .... we actually have bodies here!!! I am appalled.
Posted by: Florida Girl | Jun 3, 2007 12:03:19 PM
Response to seth-deborah. Maybe Google Earth has no meaning to you but it helps commerce in ways you have no imagination for. Tens of thousands of real estate people use it daily. Both commercial and residential. I work in the commercial arena and it saves me thousands of hours a year in allowing me to research areas in seconds across the country. These are the types of productivity enhancing innovations that keep the American economy ahead of the rest of the world and allows us to enjoy the standard of living that is the envy of all those outside banging on the door to get in.
Posted by: jeffie | Jun 3, 2007 12:43:30 PM
Fighting the Jihadists is not the same as fighting the Japanese or fighting the Germans during world war II. After 5 or 10 years of war the fight is over!
But when you fight the Jihadists you will have to fight them until the end of the world. There is no end, until they all die, or we all die...
Posted by: James | Jun 3, 2007 4:20:51 PM
Bye-bye (even more) freedom.
Posted by: Trex | Jun 3, 2007 5:47:58 PM
Thomas Jefferson said this Country needs a revolution every 20 years. I think its long overdue. Get out in the streets and yell some names.
Posted by: KEITH | Jun 4, 2007 10:49:41 AM
Why not just block out the airports and other sensitive areas from Google Earth?
Posted by: cwtr | Jun 4, 2007 12:27:42 PM
cwtr, you can't because otherwise what criteria would you have to meet to "just block it out"?
What point on a map is considered a target, and deemed appropriate to refuse access to? A military site, a shopping mall, commercial office space like the WTC?
Just outlaw maps?
Nothing relevant to these guys' operation is on a google mapsearch, anyway. Google is an online street map service, that's all. This technology competes with Rand McNally, Fodor's, etc as a means to finding out how one gets from point a to point b...and all points in between. Anybody can buy a map.
Just zoom in on and stop plotters before they can successfully execute an operation...if that's your goal...
Posted by: Jazz | Jun 4, 2007 12:50:54 PM
5 million, for information? Wheres the intelligence now? Wonder why we cant get any. Get serious!! A war, but undeclared? Get serious!! Terorrist, but our borders are wide open? get serious!!As long as we have the same old song and dance in the government, there will NEVER be anyone getting serious! If they are in now, vote them out! we will eventually get good strong leaders. Term limits, no more golden retirement, no more free medical, no more free rides, live by the laws of the land! oh and inforce the laws or be considered irrelevant!
Posted by: JB | Jun 6, 2007 11:57:53 AM
I'd still feel safer if the airports, military bases, refining facilities and major metro areas were not available on Google. Go to Mapquest if you need directions.
Posted by: cwtr | Jun 6, 2007 8:28:34 PM
I heard on the news that the US pays $84 million PER DAY to the Afghan/Pakistan (not sure which) government to find Bin Ladin. And they have turned the search over to the Taliban. Wonder what we (the US) could do for our own country with 84 million dollars a day?
Posted by: jb | Jun 11, 2007 3:25:07 PM
Learn what could happen when the United States is hit by another terrorist attack by Islamic militants causing an extreme response by Washington in The Final Presidential Executive Order at
Posted by: Ron Holland | Jun 19, 2007 7:45:04 AM
Has anyone ever wondered why these terrorists and jihadists are doing what they doing? There is a reason for everything, a deep provocation, a truth that we ignore. Who is feeding the minds of these terrorists, and nourishing them? The question is close to home.
Posted by: Anne | Jul 5, 2007 2:07:18 AM
JFK is dead...nothing said can change the turn of events but do give ponderance for this loss of a president who was for the people..His wife is dead, his son is dead, our Nation took a dive when he was killed...take a look now, I can't blame one president alone now because politics is bought and sold to whom ever can finance it...its not for the people by the people, even in Europe they know that about our government...we have not seduced anyone but ourselves into believing what ever and whom ever makes good headlines...I met the President and his brother back in the 60's as a young catholic school girl...he meant more to me than my own life then...take a look at those who have sold this country and the Indians trying to get it back...so much upheaval and the military trying to use its resources to counteract that which we will never defeat...evil in both directions festered by the strong and the money makers...Apache
Posted by: Mrs.Earl L. Miller Jr | Jul 5, 2007 10:58:55 AM
This story is not about JFK, the man, it about the recent false flag event at the airport. Miller, did you even bother to read the article?
Posted by: Jesse Lewis | Aug 10, 2007 3:44:34 PM
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