FBI Admits it is Actively Investigating if Adnan el-Shukrijumah aka Jaffar al-Tayyar Was to be at Helm of United Airlines Flight #23 on 9/11

UPDATE Friday July 21, 2023, Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org writes: Nearly 22 years after al Qaeda terrorists hijacked and crashed four U.S. passenger jets in the worst attacks on American soil since Pearl Harbor, the FBI has disclosed that it is actively investigating an apparent attempt to hijack a fifth plane on 9/11.

Adnan el-Shukrijumah or 'Jaffar the Pilot' aka Jaffar al-Tayyar was to be at helm of United Airlines Flight #23 on Sept 11th 2001. Adnan el-Shukrijumah or 'Jaffar the Pilot' was a trained commercial pilot, his training took place in Norman OK and Florida under one of his assumed names (like Jumah A. El Chukri). In the weeks before 9/11, Abdulazziz al-Hijji then 27 and his wife, Anoud, daughter of an adviser to a member of the Saudi royal family, departed their home at 4224 Escondito Circle in the upscale gated community of Prestancia Sarasota Fl and returned to Saudi Arabia. An informant told authorities that the Saudi, Abdulazziz al-Hijji, once introduced him to Adnan el-Shukrijumah another former Florida resident and suspected top al-Qaeda operative at the Sarasota Mosque were they went to play soccer from 2000 to 2001. Adnan el-Shukrijumah or 'Jaffar the Pilot' aka Jumah A. El Chukri was about  5' 6" tall and 140 lbs. Adnan el-Shukrijumah attended Broward Community College from summer 1996 to summer 1998 under the name “Jumah A. El-Chukri". The Sarasota al-Hijji clan left behind three cars and “numerous personal belongings including food, medicine, bills, baby clothing, etc,” according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement documents, which state the family departed Sarasota Fl on Aug. 27, 2001. After the 9/11 attacks, an alarmed neighbor contacted the FBI. When several weeks passed without action, Prestanica resident and administrator Larry Berberich alerted local law enforcement. Authorities, including the FBI, moved in. The investigation led to a stunning development, according to Berberich and a counterterrorism officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“The car registration numbers of vehicles that had passed through the Prestancia community’s North Gate in the months before 9/11, coupled with the identification documents shown by incoming drivers on request, showed that Mohamed Atta and several of his fellow hijackers – and another Saudi terror suspect still at large – had visited al-Hijji's 4224 Escondito Circle in Sarasota Fl on multiple occasions,” the source said. The others included Marwan al-Shehhi, who plowed a United Airlines jet into the World Trade Center’s South Tower; Ziad Jarrah, who crashed another United jet into a Pennsylvania field; and Walid al-Shehri, who flew with Atta on the first plane to strike the World Trade Center. Also identified as having visited: Saudi-born fugitive Adnan el-Shukrijumah or 'Jaffar the Pilot' aka Jaffar al-Tayyar (DOB August 4th 1975 – DOD December 6th 2014). The source said law enforcement “also conducted a link analysis that tracked phone calls – based on dates, times and length of phone conversations to and from the Escondito house – dating back more than a year before 9/11. And the phone traffic also connected with the 9/11 terrorists – though less directly than the gate logs did.” A Saudi man who set off an FBI investigation after he and his family left their Sarasota, Fla. home and relocated abroad two weeks before the 9/11 attacks apparently considered terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden a "hero" and may have been acquainted with some of the plane hijackers, an informant told the FBI in 2004. 

According to NBC News, the informant, Wissam T. Hammoud, told authorities in 2004, that the Saudi, Abdulazziz al-Hijji who lived in Sarasota Fl, may have been involved in the 9/11 plot and maintained a personal relationship with Adnan el-Shukrijumah an al-Qaeda operative. 

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Name: WISSAM TAYSIR HAMMOUD

Register Number: 39876-018

Age: 57
Race: White
Sex: Male

Released On: 09/27/2022

Sources also said Adnan el-Shukrijumah has a connection to the Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma, where Zacarias Moussaoui, an accused September 11 co-conspirator, took classes. 9/11 boss Mohamed Atta visited the school but did not take lessons there. A spokeswoman for the school emphatically denied that el-Shukrijumah attended the school, saying it has no record of a student with that name. But the FBI said he is "Adnan el-Shukrijumah awfully good with aliases" so is continuing investigations along those lines. Aliases: for "Adnan Gulshair El-Shukrijumah" are Jaffar the Pilot, Jumah A. El-Chukri, Abu Arif, Ja'far Al-Tayar, Jaffar Al-Tayyar, Jafar Tayar, “The South American”, Jaafar Al-Tayyar, Mohammed Essagh, and "Hamad." Adnan Gulshair El-Shukrijumah had multiple passports in different names along with drivers licenses.

UPDATE Monday 20th, 2023 from original article of Sept 11th, 2022. NYP: The captain of United Airlines flight #23 scheduled to take off the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, is convinced his plane was intended to be part of the coordinated terrorist attack. “There is a good chance that somebody was plotting to try to use our airplane as a weapon of mass destruction,” pilot Tom Mannello says in “TMZ Investigates: 9/11: The Fifth Plane,” premiering Monday at 9 p.m. ET on Fox. TMZ said it spent six months investigating the “suspicious and alarming activities” aboard Flight 23, a Boeing 767 that was due to leave JFK Airport for LAX at 9 a.m. and more than 50,000 gallons of jet fuel. In the hour-long special, flight attendants aboard the plane that day share their suspicions about four people in first class  two men, a child and a person who was dressed in a Muslim burqa, with the crew believing it was a man pretending to be a woman (Adnan el-Shukrijumah who is 5' 6" tall)  and a man profusely sweating in business class. They all fled from the plane when it returned to the terminal. Box cutters and Al Qaeda documents were later found in their luggage, so who are they, what names were used? Barry Mawn.[Source: Associated Press] On September 13 2001, New York authorities take into custody ten people of Middle Eastern descent at JFK International and La Guardia Airports (baggage handlers), reportedly fearing they intend to hijack aircraft and commit another suicidal terrorist attack on a US target. This leads to all three major New York-area airports—JFK, La Guardia, and Newark—being abruptly shut down, just hours after they reopened for the first time since the 9/11 attacks took place. Adnan El-Shukrijumah had cased targets in New York City and Washington, D.C., at KSM’s request, prior to the 9/11/2001 terror attack. He had announced his intention to his mother immediately after 9/11. The FBI never did interview Adnan El-Shukrijumah because they could not find him.

FYI: If UA Flight 23 was to be hijacked on Sept 11, 2001 by the 4 Muslims sitting in 1st Class, that means there was a 5th trained pilot to take over the controls of UA Flight 23. Would that have been Adnan el-Shukrijumah who was in Florida and a pilot in 2001 and a known pal of Mohamed Atta? Did he train with Mohamed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah in Venice Fl or Hani Hanjour in Phoenix AZ? Adnan el-Shukrijumah or 'Jaffar the Pilot' was born in Saudi Arabia, he was an al-Qaeda operative and a boss, he was also a trained commercial pilot. Adnan el-Shukrijumah is one of several young, street-smart leaders of Al Qaeda handpicked by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, to keep the terrorist network alive and humming in the face of U.S.-led efforts to unravel it. Sources described Adnan el-Shukrijumah as an al Qaeda field commander who trained under alleged terror financier Ramzi Binalshibh. They told ABCNEWS that the 27-year-old lived for years in Florida, and was identified by captured al Qaeda attack planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Mohammed also said that el-Shukrijumah had been sent to the United States to carry out an operation. He does not have a pilot's license registered with the Federal Aviation Administration under the name of Adnan el-Shukrijumah, but that does not mean he is not a trained commercial pilot who used an alias.

Adnan el-Shukrijumah is believed to have trained at a flight school in Florida, he spent his teenage years at the Al Farooq Mosque in Brooklyn NY where his father was the IMAM. Shukrijumah's father, said that Adnan left the United States for Trinidad (by way of Panama) about five months before the 9/11 attacks, or did he? Adnan, who had lived in Trinindad as a small child, was a permanent resident alien of the U.S., a status he has since lost since being out of the United States for more the six months. It is unclear what he was doing in Trinidad if he really did go and much about Shukrijumah remains a hazy mystery. He holds Guyanese and Trinidadian passports, may also have 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. "He could certainly have come back here from Trinidad, and nobody would know it." U.S. authorities had put his name on domestic and international watch lists but feared he traveled to Mexico or Canada on phony documents and then sneak across the border into the U.S. in May of 2001, five months prior to the 9/11 attack.

 

In late 1999, Adnan el-Shukrijumah started traveling to Pakistan and Afghanistan. While there, it is believed that he trained in an Al Qaeda training camp. In 2007 FBI agents feared but the three men accused of plotting to attack John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York were linked to one of the most wanted al Qaeda leaders, Adnan el-Shukrijumah. One of the 3 men was a former cargo handler at JFK airport. Another was a former member of parliament from Guyana in South America. And the third was from the Caribbean.

The 4 Arab passengers in 1st class on UA Flight #23 on Sept 11th, 2001 disappeared. So who are they, names would have been on their tickets and boarding passes, WTF? The entire crew of Flight 23 was interviewed the next day. Pilot Mannello said that during his “three- or-four-hour interview” an agent told him that “there were actually seven Arabs or Muslims who might have been Saudis on the plane. Three were a couple with a two or three-year-old baby. ‘We’re looking for the other four gentlemen,’ the agent said.’ The 4 known terror flights on 9/11 were out of Newark Intl Airport NJ (1), Washington Dulles Intl Airport VA (1) and Boston Logan Intl Airport MA (2). No known terror flights originated out of JFK airport or LaGuardia airport on Sept 11, 2001.

 

Al-Qaeda terrorist Adnan el-Shukrijumah's Guyanese father, Sheikh Gulshair, who passed away in 2004, worked in Guyana for a time as a missionary for the government of Saudi Arabia. In the early 1990s, Sheikh Gulshair took a job with the Al Farooq Mosque in Brooklyn NY where some congregants were linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the subsequent foiled plot to blow up New York City landmarks. Allegations indicated that Sheik Mohammed Al Hasan Al-Moayad used the mosque to raise money for Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network in 1999. Adnan el-Shukrijumah was living in Brooklyn NY for several years in the early 1990's. He was indicted by New York authorities in 2010 over an alleged plot to have two men blow themselves up in the city’s subway system. Adnan el-Shukrijumah was linked by at least one government informant with the Saudi al-Hijji family who lived in Sarasota's Prestancia neighborhood.

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