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Mother Of Slain Ex-Broward Al Qaeda Boss Hopes For End To Stigma

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FBI Director Robert Mueller with wanted poster for Adnan El Shukrijumah in 2003.

Nearly two years have passed since Miramar’s Zuhrah A. Jumah got news that her eldest son, Adnan, had been killed during a military raid on an al Qaeda hideout in a mountainous corner of northwest Pakistan.

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Zuhrah A. Jumah, top left, and her son Adnan El Shukrijumah, right and bottom.

Lately, she wonders how long Adnan El Shukrijumah’s ugly reputation as a dangerous senior al Qaeda commander will continue to trail her and her family.

“I go to the airport. My name comes up on the computer and they stop me. They say, ‘You’ve been selected’,” says Jumah, a mild-mannered widow with 13 grandchildren who has lived in the same modest home off West Hallandale Beach Boulevard for 20 years. “I’m searched. Sometimes they question me.”

Those traveling with are also met with extra suspicion by airport security – even her 2-year-old granddaughter.

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