al-Qaida mastermind has U.S. in his sights

al-Qaida mastermind has U.S. in his sights: "U.S. counter-terrorism authorities have identified a leading Saudi-born al-Qaida operative as a key figure in a September 2009 plot to bomb New York's subway system, an attack that could have matched the carnage of 9/11. Adnan el Shukrijumah, 34, is a naturalized U.S. citizen but he has a $5 million bounty on his head, a measure of the threat U.S. authorities consider he poses. He is linked directly to al-Qaida's top leadership and the subway plot underlines how they are still striving to pull off another cataclysmic assault on the United States."