More On Alleged Dirty Bomb Threat

Update: There's another article at CFP claiming al-Shukrijumah is not Ciro Vitolo , but leaves open the reports of his being in Canada.

See previous post for details and background of a possible on going al-Qaeda threat. It appears as though the news was carried in May in the Free Canadian Press, which also lists a new alias for al-Qaeda operative Adnan al-Shurrijumah.

There’s a $5-million bounty on the head of El Shukrijumah, who is being sought by the FBI and CIA in connection with a plot to detonate a dirty bomb--a conventional explosive laced with radioactive material. El Shukrijumah has been described as "the next Mohammad Atta" by American authorities.

"In addition, the informant said at least three other al Qaida terrorists were seen in Hamilton in 2002. They include Anas al-Liby, one of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists, Jaber A. Elbaneh and Amer El-Maati," Gertz wrote on Oct. 17, 2003.

McMaster’s online student records for the Year 2000 list BSc graduate Ciro Vincente Vitolo studying Physics at the Faculty of Science. The word `Lost’ appears in brackets beside his name. Vitolo’s record is the only one marked `Lost’ among the ones viewed.

From the bottom of the article, it appears in this case, University officials may have been less than co-operative with Bill Gertz from the Washington Times - and also that al-Shurrijumah may have been enrolled under an alias, Ciro Vitolo. Earlier reports indicate that due to his many years in the US and his appearance, al-Shurrijumah is able to pass as an individual of Italian descent.

When the Washington Time’s Bill Gertz began asking questions about El Shukrijumah attending classes at McMaster University, he was given the proverbial bum’s rush by university administration.

"Jane Johnson, a spokesperson for McMaster University, declined to comment on whether El Shukrijumah was ever a student at the school," said Gertz. "She said such information was confidential."

McMaster officials also told the Toronto Sun they have no record of a suspected Al Qaida operative posing as a student or casing their nuclear reactor facility.

"Adnan El Shukrijumah never enrolled under that name or any of his aliases," a school official told The Sun.

Problem is, terrorist Adnan El Shurkijumah seems to have enrolled at McMaster University’s engineering and physics departments under the name, Ciro Vitolo.

A photograph of Al Qaeda terrorist Adnan El Shukrijumah, aka "Jafar the Pilot"--posted to the Internet by the FBI--has been identified as Ciro Vitolo by the former superintendent of the Hamilton apartment building where he lived,

"I can verify that yes, that’s him in the third photograph," Neil Train told Canada Free Press, (CFP) Saturday night.

Train, who was the superintendent of the David Apartments at 47 Duke St., Hamilton, Ont., where El Shukrijumah lived between 1995 and 1998 as Ciro Vitolo, said he had no doubt about making the identity, exclaiming upon seeing the FBI-posted photo, "That’s him, that’s my tenant!"

"He was always sweating and had these shiny ears. The ears are even shiny in the photo", Train said.

Last Sunday evening, (CFP) discovered a photograph identified as "Ciro Vitolo"--a dead ringer for El Shukrijumah--in a framed picture with the graduating engineering Class of 1998 on display in the hallway of the third floor in McMaster University’s John Hodgin’s engineering building.

CFP had been following up on a story heard at last weekend’s Washington, D.C. symposium on terrorism, sponsored by America’s Truth Forum in association with Basics Project.

First to report that an FBI informant had tipped off authorities that El Shukrijumah had been spotted in Hamilton, Ont., in 2002, posing as a student at McMaster University, which has a 5-megawatt research reactor on campus, was Bill Gertz, national security reporter for the Washington Times.

Comments

[John Blake]

So "Ciro Vitolo" aka El Shukrijumah ("of the shiny ears") is a nascent dirty-bomb terrorist masquerading as an Italian? Call Oriana Fallaci immediately-- how dare McMaster University slander the Religion of Peace! Let the magistrates in North Italy stage a SWAT Team hit on the McMasters Chancellery. Or perhaps the slander is not Fallaci's?

Does anyone not sense that such incidents --Saudi financing of a 32-year old terrorist "engineering student"-- are beginning to register in public minds? When oil prices fall below $1.50, or alternative energy sources become available, the whole tissue of Salafist exo-fascism and its Wahabi paymasters will fray away... Islam is for camel herders and rug merchants. Once the puppets' golden strings are severed, we will once more read Omar Khayyam in peace. Meantime, nothing you can say about these murderous Mullahs and their child-molesting prophet does justice to their self-deluded nature.

[Alan Clerkin]

More info on Adnan G. El Shukrijumah

[Alan Clerkin]

More info on Adnan G. El Shukrijumah

http://www.crusade-media.com/news5.html