PESHAWAR-
A top leader of al Qaeda was killed in an operation by Pakistan Army in Shinwarsak area of South Waziristan on Saturday morning according to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
Adnan el Shukrijuma had moved to the area from North Waziristan due to military operation ‘Zarb-e-Azb- going on in the area. He was killed, along with an accomplice and a local facilitator in a raid on his compound.
One soldier was also martyred in the raid while another was critically injured.
Federal prosecutors in the U.S. allege Shukrijumah had recruited the three men in 2008 to receive training in the lawless tribal region of Pakistan for the attack.
Shukrijumah has taken over as chief of al-Qaida’s global operations — a position once held by Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The New York indictment links him to the Manhattan plot and a similar never-executed scheme to attack British subways.
