Subway Terror Plot Had Global Reach

July 8, 2010 06:40


Three suspected al-Qaeda members were arrested in Europe a day after U.S. prosecutors charged an al-Qaeda leader with helping to mastermind an attempted bombing of New York’s subway and said the effort was part of a plot that included a failed terrorist attempt in the U.K.

By CHAD BRAY And CASSELL BRYAN-LOW at WSJ

Federal prosecutors charged a senior al-Qaeda leader Wednesday with helping to mastermind last year’s attempted bombing of New York City’s subway and said the effort was part of a larger plot that included a failed terrorist attempt in the U.K.

Three suspected al-Qaeda members were arrested in Europe Thursday morning in what Norwegian and U.S. officials said was a bombing plot linked to the New York and U.K. plans.

In an indictment unveiled in federal court in Brooklyn Wednesday, prosecutors said 34-year-old Adnan el Shukrijumah, described as a leader of an al-Qaeda program dedicated to terrorist attacks in the U.S. and other Western countries, “recruited and directed” three U.S. citizens to carry out suicide bombings in Manhattan in September 2009.

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