More al-Qaeda links made to NYC subway plot

Federal prosecutors in the United Statessay 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.