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Judicial Watch Uncovers New State Department
Records Confirming Arab Smuggling “Cells,” Al Qaeda Leader in Mexico.
Judicial Watch
For more than a
decade the U.S. government has known that “Arab extremists” are
entering the country through Mexico with the assistance of smuggling
network “cells,” according to State Department documents obtained by
Judicial Watch that reveal among them was a top Al Qaeda operative
wanted by the FBI. Some Mexican smuggling networks actually specialize
in providing logistical support for Arab individuals attempting to
enter the United States, the government documents say. The top Al Qaeda
leader in Mexico was identified in the September 2004 cable from the
American consulate in Ciudad Juárez as Adnan G. El Shurkrjumah. The
cable was released to Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information
Act.
The new intelligence
records were released as a result of an ongoing JW investigation into
the critical national security threats on the southern border,
specifically those created by Islamic terrorists teaming up with
Mexican drug cartels to infiltrate and attack the U.S. In response to
JW’s reporting in the last two years the Obama administration—through
various spokespeople, including FBI Director James Comey—has vehemently
denied that Islamic terrorists are operating in Mexican towns near
American cities or entering the U.S. through the famously porous
southern border.
The State Department
documents, which include substantial redactions supposedly to protect
classified and personal information, contradict this. JW obtained them
as part of an investigative series into Shukrijumah, an Al Qaeda
operative also known as Javier Robles. In December, 2014 Shukrijumah
was killed by the Pakistan Army in an intelligence-borne operation in
South Waziristan. But before he died Shukrijumah helped plan several
U.S. attacks, including plots to bomb Oprah Winfrey’s studio and detonate
nuclear devices in multiple American cities. For years Shukrijumah
appeared on the FBI’s most wanted list and, despite being sought by the
agency, he crossed back and forth into the U.S. from Mexico to meet
fellow militant Islamists in Texas. JW has reported that, as one of the
world’s most wanted terrorists, Shukrijumah piloted an aircraft into
the Cielo Dorado airfield in Anthony, New Mexico.
The new State
Department records show that U.S. authorities knew Shukrijumah was in
Mexico because they say that the Regional Security Office (RSO) at the
consulate in Ciudad Juárez used newspapers to distribute information
throughout Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico about the Al Qaeda operative at
the request of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in El Paso. This
appears on page 17 of the documents, which are linked above in their
entirety. Of interesting note is that the government uses an exemption
that applies to classified information to continue to withhold some of
the records when the entire file was already declassified back in
September, 2014.
Information about
Middle Eastern terrorists entering the U.S. through Mexico appears in a
September 2, 2004 cable—declassified 10 years later—titled
“CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT, A PROVEN CI TO USG IN THE PAST, REPORTS ARAB
CELLS WITHIN MEXICO.” It explains that a reputable government informant
went to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez and provided information
pertaining to suspect Arab extremists who have been smuggled into the
U.S. through the Mexican border. “The confidential source (SUBJECT)
stated his family member, who is a human trafficker, knows the exact
whereabouts of three Arabs who are currently being hidden in Agua
Prieta, Sonora, Mexico,” the State Department cable reads. “Although
not absolutely positive, one of the three is likely Adnan G. El
Shukrijumah, alleged to be a Saudi Arabian terrorist cell leader
thought to be in Mexico. SUBJECT also provided information on two
smuggling networks, “cells,” that specialize in providing logistical
support for Arab individuals attempting to enter the United States.”
Many questions remain
about the U.S. government’s relationship with Shukrijumah, but last
spring JW obtained records from the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement (FDLE) that indicate he was a Confidential Source/Informant
for the government. Shukrijumah lived in South Florida’s Broward County
and graduated from Broward Community College with a degree in computer
engineering. Four months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks Shukrijumah
fled the U.S. He was one of the suspected actors in a number of planned
terror attacks in the U.S., including a plot to simultaneously detonate
nuclear devices in several U.S. cities. Convicted terrorist Jose
Padilla claimed to have trained with Shukrijumah to blow up U.S. apartment
buildings using natural gas explosions.
In 2010 Shukrijumah
was indicted in the Eastern District of New York for his role in a
terrorist plot to attack targets in the United States—including New
York City’s subway system—and the United Kingdom, according the FBI.
The plot against New York City’s subway system was directed by senior
Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan, the FBI says, and was directly related
to a scheme by Al Qaeda plotters in Pakistan to use Western operatives
to attack a target in the United States.
A year earlier
Shukrijumah helped plan a terrorist truck-bomb targeting Winfrey’s
Harpo Studios in Chicago as well as the iconic Sears Tower. Two of his
fellow conspirators—Emad Karakrah and Hector Pedroza Huerta—were
arrested in 2014 for unrelated state crimes in different parts of the
country. Karakrah got busted in Chicago on charges of making a false
car bomb threat after leading police on a high-speed chase with an ISIS
flag waving from his vehicle. Huerta, an illegal alien twice convicted
for driving intoxicated, got nabbed in El Paso for drunk driving. Both
Karakrah and Pedroza were released from custody in 2015 under highly
unusual plea deals.
The men formed part
of a sophisticated narco-terror ring, exposed in a JW investigative
series, with connections running from El Paso to Chicago to New York
City. The operation includes an all-star lineup of logistics and
transportation operatives for militant Islamists in the United State,
drug and weapons smugglers for the Juarez drug cartel in Mexico, an FBI
confidential informant gone rogue and two of the FBI’s most wanted
terrorists. Shukrijumah was one of them and, though he’s dead, he is an
important part of the puzzle and extremely relevant when connecting the
dots in the narco-terror ring.
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