A top al-Qaeda leader, who has been indicted in the US over a bomb plot, has been killed during a raid in Pakistan’s tribal region, the country’s military said.
Adnan Shukrijumah was killed, along with two other suspected fighters, in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal area early on Saturday, a millitary source said.
“The al-Qaeda leader, who was killed by the Pakistan army in a successful operation, is the same person who had been indicted in the United Stated,” said a senior Pakistani army officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to talk to journalists.
The FBI had offered a $5-million reward for his capture.
Federal prosecutors in the US alleged Shukrijumah had recruited three men in 2008 to receive training in the lawless tribal region of Pakistan for bombng New York subway system.
The New York indictment links him to the Manhattan plot and a similar never-executed scheme to attack British subways.
Attorney General Eric Holder has called that plot one of the most dangerous since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
BBC News.
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