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A senior al-Qaeda militant, accused of planning to bomb trains in New York and London, has been killed in Pakistan, the country’s military says.<\/p>\n

Adnan el Shukrijumah was killed in a raid in north-western Pakistan, near the Afghan border, the military said.<\/p>\n

The FBI describes him as al-Qaeda’s global operations chief, a post once held by the alleged mastermind of the 9\/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.<\/p>\n

Shukrijumah was born in Saudi Arabia and lived for several years in the US.<\/p>\n

He was named in a US federal indictment as a conspirator in the case against three men accused of plotting suicide bomb attacks on New York’s subway system in 2009.<\/p>\n

He is also suspected of having played a role in plotting al-Qaeda attacks in Panama, Norway and the UK.<\/p>\n

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Analysis: M Ilyas Khan, BBC News, Islamabad<\/span><\/p>\n

The killing of Adnan el Shukrijumah is the first major militant casualty since June when the Pakistani military launched a major operation to clean up the largest militant sanctuary on the country’s soil.<\/p>\n

It comes days after Pakistani army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif returned from a week-long visit of the US, the first by an army chief in four years. On Thursday, the US Congress extended a $1b operational support to Pakistani army despite recent tensions and mistrust.<\/p>\n

The killing also puts the spotlight back on the Western half of South Waziristan, the first militant sanctuary in Pakistan where al-Qaeda and Taliban groups fleeing American bombing in October 2001 took shelter. Shukrijuma’s killing in an army raid in this region shows that it is now being used as a hideout by militants fleeing the military offensive in North Waziristan.<\/p>\n

Local militant groups still control territory here, and are still considered largely friendly to the army, but now there may be more persistent questions over this relationship.<\/p>\n

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Pakistan’s military said two other militants were killed in the raid on Saturday. One soldier was also reportedly killed, and another was hurt.<\/p>\n

A military statement said the “intelligence-borne operation” took place in the Shinwarsak region of South Waziristan, which borders Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

The region is a base for the Pakistani Taliban and its allies.<\/p>\n

Pakistan’s military launched an offensive in June against militants in neighbouring North Waziristan.<\/p>\n

Shukrijumah is alleged to have been in charge of planning al-Qaeda attacks outside Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

A Saudi national, he spent more than 15 years in the US, moving there when his father took up a post at a Brooklyn mosque. The family later moved to Florida.<\/p>\n

In the late 1990s, he is thought to have left for militant training camps in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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