Pakistan military kills al-Qaeda leader wanted in U.S.

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Pakistan military kills al-Qaeda leader wanted in U.S.

BY HAFIZ WAZIR
WANA, Pakistan Sat Dec 6, 2014 11:10am EST

(Reuters) - Pakistani helicopter gunships staged a predawn raid on a militant hideout on Saturday and shot dead a top al-Qaeda operative wanted for plotting to bomb the New York subway system, the military said.

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.

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[Socal31]

1. And what nobody in the US or particularly Pakistani .gov likes to disclose....

Is that the odds are good that there were SAD forces embedded during the operation.