Plotters Came ‘Within Days’ of Subway Attack, Jury Told

A New York man helped plan a foiled suicide attack on the city’s subway system around the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a prosecutor told jurors at the start of his trial.

Adis Medunjanin, 27, and two other New York men were recruited by Adnan Shukrijumah, one of al-Qaeda’s top operatives, for a planned bombing of subway lines in Manhattan in 2009, according to the U.S. government. The two other men, Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay, pleaded guilty in 2010.