OK, how many "third most senior Al Qaeda leaders" have we killed so far? [View All]

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I know we've snuffed a buttload of number two guys, but how many number threes?



Top Al Qaeda commander killed in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An al Qaeda commander ranked the third most senior leader in Osama bin Laden's network was killed in a tribal region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, President Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday.

Abu Hamza Rabia, an Egyptian credited with heading al Qaeda's international operations, was among five people killed in an explosion at a house where they were hiding in North Waziristan on Thursday.

Rabia, in his 30s, took over the number three spot, behind bin Laden and his Egyptian deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, after the capture of Abu Faraj Farj al Liby in Pakistan in May, U.S. and Pakistani security officials said.

Rabia was involved in plots to attack the United States and his death was a serious blow for al Qaeda, according to a U.S. counterterrorism official in Washington. "After Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri, Rabia was the most senior al Qaeda official for international terrorism planning," the official told Reuters.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051203/ts_nm/security_pakistan_qaeda_dc