More al-Qaeda links made to NYC subway plot
Suspects also planned attacks in England, unsealed indictment says
Federal prosecutors in the United States say a failed plot to set off bombs in the New York City subway last year was part of a larger al-Qaeda conspiracy that also targeted England.
In a terrorism indictment unsealed Wednesday, prosecutors added several al-Qaeda figures to the case, including Adnan Shukrijumah, an FBI most-wanted terrorist.
Attorney General Eric Holder has called the thwarted New York plot one of the most dangerous since 9/11.
Two of the men indicted Wednesday, Abid Naseer and Tariq Ur Rehman, were linked to a companion plot in London.
The news comes on the fifth anniversary of the deadly 2005 suicide bombings that rocked the transit system of London, England. Fifty-two people were killed when four extremists detonated explosives in subway cars and buses.