Pakistan army kills al - Qaeda commander

Adnan Shukrijumah, wanted in the US, killed along with
two other suspected fighters in South Waziristan tribal
region.
A high - level al -Qaeda leader who was wanted in the US
over a bomb plot , has been killed during a raid in Pakistan ' s
tribal region , according to Pakistan ' s military .
Adnan Shukrijumah was killed along with two other
suspected fighters in South Waziristan early on Saturday ,
the Pakistani military said in a statement.
One Pakistani soldier died while another was critically
injured in the operation , the statement said .
A Guyanese national who was born in Saudi
Arabia , Shukrijumah is believed to have been al -Qaeda ' s
external-operations chief, although it is not clear whether he
was still in that role at the time of his death .
"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 States, " a senior Pakistani army
officer told the Associated Press news agency.
Federal prosecutors in the US alleged that Shukrijumah
had recruited three men in 2008 to receive training in
Pakistan ' s tribal areas with the intention of bombing the
New York City subway system .
The FBI had offered a $ 5 m reward for his capture.
Pakistan said Shukrijumah had fled to South Waziristan
following the commencement of a military operation , Zarb -
e-Azb, in neighbouring North Waziristan .
Shukrijumah and two other people - described as an
"accomplice " and a "local facilitator " - were killed in the
raid .
The alleged Manhattan subway - bombing plot was uncovered
in September 2009 and Shukrijumah was indicted in that
case by a New York court in July 2010 .
The indictment also linked him to a similar never -executed
scheme to attack British subways .
Eric Holder , US attorney -general , has called the alleged
New York plot one of the most dangerous since the al -
Qaeda attacks of September 11 , 2001 .
Shukrijumah had lived in the US - specifically Brooklyn in
New York and Fort Lauderdale among other towns in
Florida - as a child and young adult.