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CAIRing for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - group's concern for KSM and dirty bomber wannabe Shukrijumah shows terror ties

March 15, 2007

CAIR's Support Of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed & Sami Al-Arian Indicative Of Its Pro-Terror Stance

By Beila Rabinowitz

March 15, 2007 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In 2003 this writer and terror researcher Joe Kaufman published an article, "CAIR vs the FBI" which exposed how the Council on American Islamic Relations had lied about their dealings with the agency to appeal to Muslims to help find fugitive dirty bomber wannabe Adnan Shukrijumah. [source http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9455]

After his capture in Pakistan in March 2003 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told law enforcement that Shukrijumah was a key al-Qaeda operative. [source http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,436061,00.html]

Adnan's father, Gulshair Shukrijumah aka Sheik Al Shukri, was linked to the terrorists who attempted the first WTC bombing. The explosive device was made by KSM nephew Ramzi Yusuf. The elder Shukrijumah had also been a character witness for Clement Hampton El who had been sentenced in the "Day of Terror" plot masterminded by Omar Abdel Rahman aka The Blind Sheik.

Gulshair Shukrijumah received funding from the Saudi government as a Wahhabi missionary until 2003. After Adnan was declared a fugitive he was publicly "fired" from his position as Imam of Masjid Al Hijrah in Miramar, which counter terrorism expert Paul Sperry designated as "the second most dangerous mosque in America" in his book "Infiltration."

Gulshair found a new position as Imam at the Shamshuddin Islamic Center in North Miami Beach run by family friend and spokesman Sofian Abdulaziz Zakkout, the head of AMANA [the American Muslim Society of North America].

For their part CAIR declared that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [and the Shukrijumahs] were the real victims of the attacks and the ones in need of protection.

Altaf Ali, the executive director of CAIR Florida, fretted to a journalist:

"Has he [KSM] been deprived of sleep? Food? We have no idea, and they won't tell us, what measures they have taken to elicit this information. Yet, they are willing to...label this man public enemy No. 1." [source http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/880495/posts]

In the wake of KSM's designation of Adnan Shukrijumah as "the next Mohammed Atta" CAIR warned law enforcement and the media not to "harass" the Shukrijumah family [presumably into disclosing his whereabouts after his mother stated that she had told her son to "stay away" and "stay put we don't want to know where you are"] CAIR demanded that deference be shown the family and praised their contribution to the Muslim community.

In a press release CAIR turned the issue from one of Muslim cooperation in finding the dirty bomber wannabe into that of possible abuse by the agency if Shukirijumah was arrested.

"We ask for assurances from the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice that they uphold Adnan G. El Shukrijumah's human rights, should they apprehend him, which includes his rights to due process. We also appeal that Adnan G. El Shukrijumah case be adjudicated in full view of the public so as not to raise any suspicion about failure to follow due process.

Adnan G. El Shukrijumah's family members have earned their respect from the South Florida community. They have contributed productively to this community. The privacy, dignity and civil rights of this family must be kept in mind as law enforcement pursues the facts of this case and as the media reports these facts." [source http://www.cair-florida.org/ViewArticle.asp?Code=PR&ArticleID=77]

CAIR's public display of solicitude for the welfare of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and concern and support for the Shukrijumah family was in sharp contrast to their deafening silence in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

According to Dr. Daniel Pipes:

"In 2001, CAIR denied his culpability for the Sept. 11 massacre, saying only that "if [note the "if"] Osama bin Laden was behind it, we condemn him by name." (Only in December was CAIR finally embarrassed into acknowledging his role.) [source http://www.danielpipes.org/article/394]

Six years after the WTC attacks CAIR, themselves defendants in a 9/11 terrorism lawsuit, continue to give aid and comfort to terrorists.

An excerpt from the lawsuit states:

"[CAIR] knew that the Enterprise in which it was participating, Radical Muslim Terrorism, and/or al-Qaida and/or the International Islamic Front for the Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, planned to and would commit an act of deadly aggression against the United States in the near future, using the resources and support supplied by CAIR. (p. 4)

CAIR agreed to form and associate with the Enterprise and agreed to commit more than tw0 predicate acts, i.e., multiple acts of murder and arson. (p. 5)

Radical Muslim Terrorism, and/or al Qaida and/or the International Islamic Front for the Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, does not feature a centralized hierarchy, because the lack of a centralized hierarchy is essential to the Enterprise's clandestine nature and its success. Thus, although al Qaida, for example, had its own membership roster and a structure of "committees" to guide and oversee such functions as training terrorists, proposing targets, financing operations, and issuing edicts, the committees were not a hierarchical chain of command but were instead a means for coordinating functions and providing material support to operations. CAIR fit neatly into this framework by raising funds for and providing funding to an otherwise providing material support for the members of the Enterprise who engaged in the Attack [on 9/11]. (pp. 6-7) [source Estate of John P. O'Neill, Sr., et al. v. Al Baraka, et al]

Last month CAIR issued an Action Alert calling upon Muslims to show support for the convicted terrorist leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Sami Al Arian who is on a hunger strike while awaiting deportation.

They exhorted Muslims to email President Bush and other politicians requesting, "that Dr. Sami al-Arian be released from detention and be allowed to leave the country with his family." [source http://www.cairphilly.org/index.php?Page=aalert070215&Side=about]

Al-Arian pled guilty to conspiring to provide support to a Palestinian terrorist organization[Palestinian Islamic Jihad] agreeing to deportation from the United States. The deal with al-Arian with the Feds was revealed in court documents unsealed on April 15, 2006.

CAIR's claims of moderation fly in the face of their support for terrorists of the ilk of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Adnan Shukrijumah and Sami al-Arian.

For that reason alone CAIR deserves the full and constant scrutiny of federal law enforcement.

http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=cair31507%2Ehtm

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http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/elshukrijumah.htm

Adnan G. El Shukrijumah Video of Adnan G. El Shukrijumah View with RealPlayer Download Free Realplayer View with Windows Media Player Transcript of Video Aliases: Adnan G. El Shukri Jumah, Abu Arif, Ja'far Al-Tayar, Jaffar Al-Tayyar, Jafar Tayar, Jaafar Al-Tayyar DESCRIPTION Date of Birth Used: August 4, 1975 Hair: Black Place of Birth: Saudi Arabia Eyes: Black Height: 5'3" to 5'6" Sex: Male Weight: 132 pounds Complexion: Dark, Mediterranean Build: Average Remarks: El Shukrijumah occasionally wears a beard. He has a pronounced nose and is asthmatic. El Shukrijumah speaks English and carries a Guyanese passport, but may attempt to enter the United States with a Saudi, Canadian, or Trinidadian passport. DETAILS Adnan G. El Shukrijumah is wanted in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States. REWARD The Rewards For Justice Program, United States Department of State, is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading directly to the capture of Adnan G. El Shukrijumah. ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS PERSON, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL FBI OFFICE OR THE NEAREST AMERICAN EMBASSY OR CONSULATE.

ROBERT S. MUELLER, III DIRECTOR FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535 TELEPHONE: (202) 324-3000 ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/880495/posts

FBI sees terror; family sees good son Ex-resident of Miramar being sought in terror case
| 03/31/2003 | BY DAVID KIDWELL AND LARRY LEBOWITZ (Natalie McNeal contributed)

Posted on 03/30/2003 11:11:40 PM PST by miltonim

He is now among the most hunted men in America.

But to his family in South Forida, Adnan Gulshair El'Shukri-jumah is the son who -- at the age of 8 -- took over as head of his home in Saudi Arabia in the absence of his missionary father.

They describe him as a brother who loved to picnic in the desert outside Medina and enjoyed American movies but not America's permissive customs.

Though the subject of a global manhunt for his suspected involvement in possible terrorist activities, family members say he was just a normal, good-natured young man who dreamed of a family of his own, whose young adult years in Miramar were filled with driving children to school, buying groceries and taking college courses.

He sometimes went with his father to lead Islamic worship services and took his Muslim heritage seriously. But by their account, Adnan El'Shukri-jumah never showed any signs of taking up the militant causes of extremists.

GOVERNMENT'S VIEW

U.S. thinks suspect joined

with terrorists before 9/11

Federal authorities have another take.

They suspect he disappeared in the weeks before the attacks that toppled the World Trade Center to cast in his lot with Osama bin Laden.

For more than two years -- even from before the surprise attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 -- federal agents have been trying without success to make a case for terrorism against the elusive and mysterious 27-year-old Miramar man.

They interrogated friends and acquaintances, who offered only vague inferences about his allegedly radical views and his capacity to be recruited.

They've been searching quietly for him since immediately after Sept. 11, 2001, and became acutely suspicious because he has lost all contact with his family.

The federal search for El'Shukri-jumah went worldwide following the March 1 arrest in Pakistan of Khalid Shaik Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and a top al Qaeda commander.

Last week, the head of the FBI's Miami office called a news conference to ask for help from the Arab-American community and to say El'Shukri-jumah "has been identified by senior members of the al Qaeda organization as a very, very, very serious threat."

Federal authorities acknowledge that there is no indictment, no arrest warrant and no evidence that El'Shukri-jumah has ever been involved in an act of violence other than biting his 13-year-old sister in a family squabble five years ago.

They have not made public any evidence suggesting El'Shukri-jumah is a threat, and they won't say under what conditions Khalid Shaik Mohammed -- now under interrogation at an undisclosed location -- made the identification.

"Has he been deprived of sleep? Food? We have no idea, and they won't tell us, what measures they have taken to elicit this information," said Altaf Ali, local director of the Council on Islamic-American Affairs.

"Yet, they are willing to . . . label this man public enemy No. 1."

FALLOUT FOR FAMILY

There has been scrutiny,

threats and a key job loss

The family insists it's a mistake that has left their lives in chaos. They have been deluged by media attention and threatening e-mails.

FBI agents have visited their home repeatedly.

And most recently, El'Shukri-jumah's father -- 72-year-old Shaik Gulshair El'Shukri-jumah -- was fired from his role as spiritual leader of his neighborhood mosque.

"We love this country. We love it because of its great laws -- its protections that we don't have in Arabia," said El'Shukri-jumah's mother, Zuhrah Abdu Ahmed. 'I'm confused about how they can do these things to my family on a `maybe.' "

"Is it possible he's innocent? Of course it is," said one federal law-enforcement source involved in the investigation. "We have made mistakes before. But from what I know about this case, I have some really serious concerns about this guy. My gut tells me this is real."

Adnan G. El'Shukri-jumah was born on Aug. 4, 1975, in Medina, Saudi Arabia, to a 16-year-old mother and a 44-year-old Islamic scholar.

When Adnan was young, his father was sent to the Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago by the Saudi government as an Islamic missionary, where the family lived until 1983.

When his father was transferred to New York City to lead a Brooklyn mosque, the family went back to Saudi Arabia.

GROWING UP FAST

An 8-year-old boy assumes

leadership position in home

Adnan, then 8, became the recognized head of the household in his father's absence -- the eldest male.

"He had so much responsibility so young," his mother said. "He was always asking everyone what they needed. He was always doing things for everyone else. I could not have lived without him."

In 1995, after Adnan had graduated from high school in Saudi Arabia, his father retired from his missionary job as Imam in Brooklyn and decided to move his family to Florida.

"I remember meeting them at [John F. Kennedy International Airport] in New York," said his father, Gulshair El'Shukri-jumah. 'He smiled and the first thing he said to me was, `Here is your family back; I don't want them anymore.' "

The family moved to Miramar in 1996 and bought a modest retirement home. In 1996 and 1997, Adnan studied computer engineering at Broward Community College. His father soon became Imam at a mosque next door to his house and often taught at other mosques. One of the mosques he and Adnan frequented was Masjid Al-Iman in Fort Lauderdale.

There, Adnan met Jose Padilla -- now being held as an "enemy combatant" for his alleged plot to explode a radioactive bomb in the United States.

The former imam of that mosque, Raed Awad, said Adnan El'Shukri-jumah and Padilla were acquainted. "They knew each other; everybody knew each other who came," Awad said. "But I can't say I remember them whispering in a corner or anything."

Said Adnan's father: "I don't remember him, but I remember counseling his wife when he left to divorce her. That's it."

The family acknowledges that Adnan had a quick temper.

"He never really had a childhood," his mother said. "Sometimes I blame that for his quick temper. But we all have tempers in this family."

On Oct. 12, 1997, neighbors telephoned Miramar police about a commotion at the family's house.

The younger siblings "locked themselves in the bedrooms to protect themselves from their brother," Officer David Goetz wrote. The report said Adnan told officers "he had come home and found clothes laying all over the place so he hit them."

His 13-year-old sister Aida had a bite wound on her arm, and another sister was hit in the face, the police report says.

The mother "conveyed to me that her son being male, he was expected to carry the role of disciplinarian," Goetz wrote.

Aida, now 18, said the entire incident was overblown. "My brother is not mean or abusive."

In 1999, Adnan organized garage sales and car washes to raise money for Muslim refugees of the war in Bosnia. "I remember him telling me once that he felt like those people were his family too," his mother said.

At the time, his family said, neither they nor Adnan were aware that the charity they supported -- Global Relief Fund -- was allegedly involved in funding terrorist organizations.

About the same time, the family befriended a man named Imran Farooq Mandhai -- who later would become the genesis of the FBI's suspicions about Adnan.

Mandhai, now serving nearly 12 years in prison for plotting to blow up power plants and other South Florida facilities, first approached Gulshair's father for spiritual leadership. The family described him as a follower of little intellect but lovable.

AN ACQUAINTANCE FALLS

A man the imam counseled

was under FBI surveillance

Mandhai was ensnared in a federal terrorism investigation in early 2001 in which discussions of his plots were recorded by undercover agents. It is in these recordings that Adnan's name first became known to federal authorities.

On March 13, 2001, Mandhai told an undercover agent: "Brother, why don't you come with us to Adnan."

"Probably he, he will join with us."

Federal agents made recorded attempts to recruit Adnan, according to two federal sources involved in the investigation, but recorded only innocent chatter. Sources said the FBI theorized that he was too intelligent and too wary.

Adnan's family vaguely remembers him discussing suspicious acquaintances. "I remember him saying that something was going on that he wasn't comfortable with," his mother said. "Now I know what he was talking about."

Two months later, Adnan left for Saudi Arabia via Trinidad and Panama, his family said.

He was in Trinidad in May trying to sell Islamic goods and trinkets, his family said.

"He wanted so much to get married and have children," his mother said. "And there were things he didn't like about American customs. He didn't like what people wore, the permissiveness. He wanted to get married back home."

FBI BEGINS VISITING

After 9/11, it becomes clear

the son is under suspicion

The family said the first time they met with FBI agents was in the weeks following Sept. 11.

It was the first in a half-dozen visits from agents looking for information.

During the first FBI visit, the family said, Adnan had not been in touch.

"When he did call I told him the FBI was looking for him," said his mother, Zurah Abdu Ahmed. "He wanted to come home, but I told him to stay away. I was very scared for him."

She said the family is afraid that if Adnan is arrested he will be incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for months until the government concludes he is innocent.

"I tell him we don't want to know where he is," she said. "We tell him to stay put."

She said the last time he called was in October. He was teaching English in Morocco and had married. "These are not the actions of a terrorist," she said.

SEARCH BECOMES HUNT

A convict mentions a name;

authorities' focus sharpens

After Sept. 11, federal sources said Mandhai was given a lie-detector test in which he was asked whether he knew any of the suspected terrorists involved in the attacks.

The polygraph indicated he was lying when he said no, sources said.

Confronted with the deception, Mandhai told authorities that he was thinking of Adnan, sources said.

The search for Adnan continued quietly until the arrest in March of Mohammed. On March 20, the FBI posted a worldwide alert for Adnan El'Shukri-jumah, with various assumed names, as a possible terror threat.

"I think he is reading this and seeing this on television somewhere and is very worried about us," said El'Shukri-jumah's mother. "But he knows we will be OK."