The list of senior terrorists killed during the Obama presidency is fairly extensive.
There’s
Osama bin Laden, of course, killed in May.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader
Anwar al-Awlaki as of today.
Earlier this month officials confirmed that al Qaeda’s chief of Pakistan operations,
Abu Hafs al-Shahri, was killed in Waziristan, Pakistan.
In August,
‘Atiyah ‘Abd al-Rahman, the deputy leader of al Qaeda was killed.
In June, one of the group’s most dangerous commanders,
Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in Pakistan. In Yemen that same month, AQAP senior operatives
Ammar al-Wa’ili, Abu Ali al-Harithi, and Ali Saleh Farhan were killed. In Somalia, Al-Qa’ida in East Africa (AQEA) senior leader
Harun Fazul was killed.
Administration officials also herald the recent U.S./Pakistani joint arrest of
Younis al-Mauritani in Quetta.
Going back to August 2009, Tehrik e-Taliban Pakistan leader
Baitullah Mahsud was killed in Pakistan.
In September of that month, Jemayah Islamiya operational planner
Noordin Muhammad Top was killed in Indonesia, and AQEA planner
Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was killed in Somalia.
Then in December 2009 in Pakistan, al Qaeda operational commanders
Saleh al-Somali and ‘Abdallah Sa’id were killed.
In February 2010, in Pakistan, Taliban deputy and military commander
Abdul Ghani Beradar was captured; Haqqani network commander
Muhammad Haqqani was killed; and Lashkar-e Jhangvi leader
Qari Zafar was killed.
In March 2010, al Qaeda operative Hussein al-Yemeni was killed in Pakistan, while senior Jemayah Islamiya operative
Dulmatin - accused of being the mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombings – was killed during a raid in Indonesia.
In April 2010, al Qaeda in Iraq leaders
Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi were killed.
In May, al Qaeda’s number three commander,
Sheik Saeed al-Masri was killed.
In June 2010 in Pakistan, al Qaeda commander
Hamza al-Jawfi was killed.
