Pakistani helicopter gunships staged a predawn raid on a militant hideout and shot dead a top al-Qaeda operative wanted for plotting to bomb the New York subway system, the military said. Reuters report:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has offered a $5 million reward for the capture of Saudi national Adnan el-Shukrijumah, 39, who it said was believed to be al-Qaeda’s external operations chief at one time.
Shukrijumah, who had a Guyanese passport, was the most senior al-Qaeda member ever killed by the Pakistani military.
“In an intelligence borne operation, top al-Qaeda leader Adnan el Shukrijumah was killed by (the) Pakistan Army in an early morning raid in Shinwarsak, South Waziristan today,” the military statement said. The remote region borders Afghanistan.
“His accomplice and local facilitator were also killed in the raid,” the statement said.
