(TIME) Elaine Shannon and Tim McGirk- A gathering of terrorism's elite slipped into Pakistan for a March 2004 terrorist summit, as described by Pakistani President Musharraf and expounded on by U.S. officials, that exposed the "second string" leadership of al-Qaeda. From England came Abu Issa al-Hindi, an Indian convert to radical Islam who specializes in surveillance. From an unknown hideout came Adnan el-Shukrijumah, an accomplished Arab Guyanese bombmaker and commercial pilot. El-Shukrijumah, 29, was reared in Miramar, Fla., where his father, a Saudi-Yemeni cleric now deceased, preached hard-line Wahhabism at a small mosque. FBI agents call el-Shukrijumah the next Atta - after Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian ringleader of the 9/11 attacks.
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