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...Since last May, when FBI Director Robert Mueller held a televised news conference to plead for news of el-Shukrijumah, tips have poured in placing him everywhere from Niagara Falls in New York to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. "He's kind of like Elvis," an intelligence official told TIME. "He seems to pop up all over." The last place he can be credibly traced to, however, is Waziristan. FBI agents call el-Shukrijumah the next Atta?after Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian ringleader of the 9/11 attacks. Investigators are trying to learn whether the versatile el-Shukrijumah helped case the buildings featured...
...small mosque, el-Shukrijumah took computer classes at Broward Community College in Florida. He holds Guyanese and Trinidadian passports, may also possess Canadian and Saudi passports, and can easily pass for Hispanic. "He speaks English and has the ability to fit in and look innocuous," says an FBI agent. U.S. authorities have put his name on domestic and international watch lists but fear he will travel to Mexico or Canada on phony documents and then sneak across the border into...
ARRESTED. AHMED KHALFAN GHAILANI, senior al-Qaeda suspect on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list; in Gujrat, Pakistan. The Tanzanian was indicted in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania...
...money laundering; in New York City. The former 400-pounder--dubbed "the Last Don" for evading prison while the heads of New York's other four Mafia families were behind bars--was also found guilty of having a role in the slaying of Dominick (Sonny Black) Napolitano, who let FBI agent Joe Pistone (posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco) infiltrate the family...
...FBI is worried about the safety of Capitol Hill's leaders as well. TIME has also learned that on Friday, July 30, just two days before homeland security Secretary Tom Ridge issued his nationwide alert, a congressional leader was warned by an FBI official that he and the other members could be personally targeted by al-Qaeda in Washington or when traveling around the country. The top leaders of Congress, such as the Speaker, party leaders and whips are already assigned Capitol Police security details to guard them. This is the second time the FBI has warned congressional leaders they...