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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/world/pakistan-kills-senior-qaeda-leader-wanted-by-fbi.html?_r=0
Pakistan Military Kills Al-Qaeda Leader Wanted in U.S.
(New York Times) Ismail Khan - The Pakistani military said Saturday that it had killed a senior leader of al-Qaeda wanted in the U.S. on charges of plotting to bomb several Western targets, including the New York City subway system. Adnan G. el-Shukrijumah, described by the FBI as a leader in al-Qaeda's external operations program, was killed in a raid at a remote compound in South Waziristan. Shukrijumah, 39, a naturalized American citizen born in Saudi Arabia, spent some of his early years in Brooklyn and went to college in Florida.