ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: CNN
5August2010 8:06amPDT
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Miami, Florida - He was born in Saudi Arabia and spent much of his youth in New York and south Florida. Then he vanished.
Investigators now allege that Adnan Shukrijumah has risen to a key position in al Qaeda's leadership.
The FBI says that after he left America, Shukrijumah started off as an al Qaeda dishwasher, doing menial tasks at training camps.
But he's much more than a dishwasher now, according to investigators.
"It's like any other business. He would be equated with being the chief of operations," says Brian LeBlanc, a special agent for the FBI.
As the alleged director of al Qaeda's overseas operations, investigators believe he is "extremely dangerous," LeBlanc says.
"He may not be someone who's going to come into the United States to conduct the attack, but what makes him more dangerous is he's out there plotting the attacks and recruiting people to actively do that," LeBlanc says.
