FBI hunts suspect with Trini connection

A SAUDI ARABIAN with Trinidad connections, is one of four persons being sought by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) worldwide  in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States. The FBI issued a bulletin with photographs of the four wanted men on its website yesterday. They circulated the bulletin among law enforcement agencies after intelligence reports indicated that the four could be involved in a plot against US interests. The wanted men have been identified as Adnan G Shukrijumah, Zubayr Al-Rimi, Abderraouf Jdey, and Karim El Mejjati.

Shukrijumah, 28, occasionally wears a beard. He has a pronounced nose and is asthmatic. He speaks English and carries a Guyanese passport, but may attempt to enter the United States with a Saudi, Canadian, or Trinidad and Tobago passport. Shukrijumah spent time in Trinidad two years ago when his father was a cleric teaching in Central Trinidad. FBI believes that the wanted man has ties to South Florida, where some of the persons involved in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were training as pilots. FBI officials have described Shukrijuman as a possible Al-Qaeda operational planner similar to Mohammed Atta, a key organiser of the September 11 attacks.