CHAD BRAY and CASSELL BRYAN-LOW
The Wall Street Journal
July 8, 2010
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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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