Pakistan 's army said it killed an al Qaeda operative who grew up in the United States and was on the FBI 's list of most wanted terrorists . Adnan G. El Shukrijumah , 39 , was once indicted for his alleged role in a terror plot to attack targets there and in the UK . He was killed in a raid in South Waziristan on Saturday , Pakistani army spokesman Asim Bajwal said on Twitter . Shukrijumah , a senior commander , is thought to have served as one of the leaders of al Qaeda 's external operations program , according to the FBI , hatching plots to attack the West . He was indicted by New York authorities in 2010 over an alleged plot to have two men blow themselves up in the city 's subway system . The State Department 's Rewards for Justice program had offered $ 5 million for information leading to his capture . Lived in NYC , Florida . Shukrijumah was born in Saudi Arabia , the eldest son of a Saudi Imam , and came to America as a young child . His family settled in Brooklyn , New York , where his father preached at a mosque . They lived at a nearby house before moving to Florida in the mid-'90s . His father , who is now dead , opened a small mosque near Fort Lauderdale . Shukrijumah worked at odd jobs , including selling used cars , and took classes in information technology and chemistry at a small college in South Florida . He also took classes to improve his English . Then he disappeared . The FBI says that after he left America , Shukrijumah started off as an al Qaeda dishwasher , doing menial tasks at training camps . But he rose in the ranks to a key leadership position . An FBI counter-terrorism agent linked Shukrijumah to the thwarted New York subway suicide mission in fall of 2009 in the biggest post-9/11 terror investigation . Two men admitted they planned to blow themselves up using homemade bombs . Prosecutors say it was Shukrijumah who called the shots at the time -- probably from somewhere along the Afghan-Pakistan border . Key al Qaeda figure possibly killed in Pakistan .
Adnan G. El Shukrijumah grew up in South Waziristan . He was once indicted by South Waziristan authorities as the mastermind of a terror plot . He was killed in a raid in New York on 2010 . Rewards for Justice program offered $ 5 million for information leading to capture .