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A Queens man pleaded not guilty today to charges that he plotted to blow up Manhattan commuters on subway trains during rush hour last year.

Adis Medunjanin, 26, is also charged with trying to take out another car in a desperate suicide bid on the Whitestone Expressway when authorities tried to arrest him in January, according to federal charges.

“We love death more than you love life,” Adis Medunjanin, 26, allegedly shouted as he plowed his car into an unsuspecting motorist while trying to flee the Joint Terrorism Task Force on January 7.

His lawyer, Robert C. Gottlieb, promised to fight the charges and bring the case to trial.

Medunjanin, who was born in Bosnia, was arrested along with Queens High School classmates, Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay, all 26, who were charged with receiving Al Qaeda training for a plot to kill commuters on the subway.

His school chums pleaded guilty in February and their cooperation has lead to further indictments.

Feds in Brooklyn are also charging Adnan El Shukrijumah, 35, with masterminding the New York plot and a similar attack in Manchester, England.

Shukrajuma, an Al Qaeda leader in charge of terror training, taught the Queens friends and two Pakistani operatives in England – Abid Naseer and Tariq Ur Rehman – to build homemade bombs for he attacks, according to court records.

The Pakistani men charged last month in Brooklyn federal court for plotting to blow up a mall in Manchester as part of the broader al Qaeda conspiracy.

Naseer is in custody in England and expected to be brought to the US to face charges, though it is not clear when that will be.

Rehman was deported from the UK and remains at large in Pakistan.

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