The Pakistani military announced that a top al-Qaeda operative was killed by government forces in a firefight early Saturday.. Adnan Shukrijumah, a Saudi national, was wanted in the US in connection with a plot to blow up the New York city subway in 2009. Adnan Shukrijumah was considered a senior leader in the terrorist group, holding a position that was once occupied by 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. NBC News: Adnan el Shukrijumah, who was indicted in July 2010 for his alleged role in planned terror attacks in the U.S. and Britain, was killed along with two others in a pre-dawn raid, the military told NBC News. Shukrijumah, 39, was in charge of al Qaida's global operations - a position once held by Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - and was on the FBI's "most wanted" list with a $5 million reward for his capture. He studied at a community college in Florida but when the FBI showed up to arrest him as a material witness to a terrorism...(Read Full Post)