Baltimore Harbor Tunnel Incident Essay

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(U//FOUO) Title: Possible Threats and Test Terrorist Attacks made to Baltimore/Washington D.C. Roadways

(U//FOUO) Focus Statement: Radicalized individuals with extremist group connections have been testing the infrastructure of Baltimore/ Washington D.C. One of these test attacks is the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel incident. These incidents and information found on the two key suspects indicate a potential increase of threats to the infrastructure of major cities across the United States.

(U//FOUO) Key Judgments:
• (U//FOUO) The Baltimore Harbor Tunnel Incident was a test of major city emergency preparedness.
• (U//FOUO) The individuals involved have possible radicalized ties to extremist groups.
• (U//FOUO) The individuals were suspicious.
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Al Shakroun follows Islamic law and has ties to Black Muslims in New York and New Jersey as well as ties to Algeria’s Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). Mustafa Mohammed Massaoud had previous charges of disturbing the peace while making anti-government comments and has attended a Black Panther rally in 2011. Ashraf Querishi who was grew up in Pakistan and was taught at a religious school. He came to the United States to study engineering and became an expert in automobile engineering working for BMW of America with the ability to tailor and customize the front end assemblies of vehicles to the buyer’s specifications. A source described Querishi as “hating …show more content…
At the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel incident a state policeman described the men as being “pleased or “satisfied” with the potentially dangerous situation. The two individuals did not react or ask questions about their truck being impounded for inspection. Both individuals also made racial, religious and anti-government charged comments of how foreigners are treated differently in the United States. Al Shakroun lied when he told law enforcement that this was their first trip to Washington D.C after receipts were found in his briefcase from an earlier trip to Washington D.C. earlier in the year. Abdulla al-Shakroun and Mustafa Mohammed Massaoud and their business associate, Ashraf Querishi has not been located since the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel

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