FBI hunts homegrown al-Qaida from south Florida
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-amanhunt03sep03,0,846610.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines"In a recent interview on the front stoop of the family home, Ahmed -- a tiny woman with warm brown eyes and a big smile, dressed in a flowing black robe and head scarf -- said her son didn't like South Florida's freewheeling singles scene and the nightclubs and bikinis.
"But he like America so much," she said. "People, he say,
very nice and kind. If only they more decent, he say, this would be the best place on Earth."
Ahmed, now a widow, conceded that it was possible her son might have fallen in with the wrong crowd.
"I recognize a lot of people do evil stuff in the name of the religion," she said, and then paused. "He's a young guy. Maybe they try to trap him, without he even knew what was going on around him. Who knows?"
"He's also a naturalized U.S. citizen whose appearance would allow him to pass as Latino, Indian or Middle Eastern and who speaks English with no discernible accent, officials say.
That background makes El'Shukri-Jumah especially threatening, counter-terrorism authorities say.
El'Shukri-Jumah was "the guy who was reared to replace" Mohammed as an al-Qaida senior trainer, facilitator and propagandist, playing a central role in the development of hundreds of the network's future soldiers, said Sajjan Gohel, director for international security at the London-based Asia-Pacific Foundation. "He is part of al-Qaida Stage 2." The foundation consults on terrorism assessment for governments."
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