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To: JohnM who wrote (52238)6/30/2004 3:19:28 PM
From: KLP  Read Replies (2) of 793804
 
Hot off the Drudge wire: Suspected al-Qaeda member planned to blow up Panama Canal: Honduras
Wed Jun 30 2004 14:53:29 ET

A man believed to be a member of al-Qaeda plotted to blow up the Panama Canal, a spokesman for the Honduran security ministry told the AFP Wednesday.

Leonel Sauceda confirmed Security Minister Oscar Alvarez's comments to local media that the 38-year-old suspect -- identified as Adnan Guishar El Shukrijumah, or Jafar al-Tayar, who was in Honduras late last month -- "planned to plant explosives in the Panama Canal to hamper boat traffic in the area."

Alvarez's remarks were published in the daily La Tribuna on Wednesday, along with four photos of the suspect. International intelligence officials have offered a five-million-dollar reward for information leading to his capture.

Alvarez did not say when Shukrijumah entered or left the country, nor through which country he had traveled. But Sauceda said he was in Honduras on May 27.

Shukrijumah holds passports from Trinidad and Tobago, Canada and Guyana, according to the authorities

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