Al Qaeda Most Wanted: Top Terrorists Wanted By US (PHOTOS)

By The Associated Press --
On May 2, 2011, Navy SEALs shot and killed al-Qaida leader and Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden in his home in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It was a raid made especially daring by the fact that there was only a 50-50 chance the terrorist leader was there. After his death, these are five of the top al-Qaida leaders who pose a clear and continuing threat of an attack within the U.S., according to U.S. intelligence and counterterrorist officials.

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• Osama Bin Laden

  Al-Qaeda's Saudi leader was killed in an American raid on May 1, 2011. (AP Photo, File)

• Ayman al-Zawahri

  Ayman al-Zawahri became <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/29/5-most-wanted-al-qaida-leaders/" target="_hplink">al Qaeda's new leader</a> after the death of Osama bin Laden. He is believed to be hiding in Pakistan and regularly releases propaganda videos. (AP Photo/SITE Intel Group)

• Abu Yahia Al Libi

  Abu Yahia al Libi was al Qaeda's <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120429/us-al-qaida-top-5/" target="_hplink">de facto no. 2</a> after the death of Bin Laden. He escaped a high-security U.S. prison in Bagram, Afghanistan, in 2005 and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/abu-yahia-al-libi-drone-strike_n_1569772.html" target="_hplink">was killed</a> in a strike in Pakistan in June 2012. (AP)

• Nasser al-Wahishi

  Al Wahishi was once bin Laden's <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120429/us-al-qaida-top-5/" target="_hplink">aide-de-camp</a> and now commands AQAP, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula . (AFP/GettyImages)

• Ibrahim Hassan Al Asiri

  Saudi Ibrahim Hassan al Asiri is <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120429/us-al-qaida-top-5/" target="_hplink">believed to be responsible </a>for building uilding the underwear bomb used to try to bring down a Detroit-bound jetliner on Christmas 2009, as well as the printer-cartridge bombs.

• Said AlMasri

  Al Qaeda's number 3 was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/31/al-qaeda-number-three-reported-killed_n_595561.html" target="_hplink">killed</a> in an American drone strike May 2012. (Reuters TV)

• Fazul Abdullah Mohammed

  Mohammed was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/11/fazul-abdullah-mohammed-dead_n_875363.html" target="_hplink">killed</a> by the Somalian army in June 2011. He led the organization in Eastern Africa. (AP)

• Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi

  Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/19/two-top-al-qaeda-figures-_n_542653.html" target="_hplink">killed</a> in a U.S. airstrike in 2006. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of State, HO)

• Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

  Mohammed, the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/06/khalid-sheikh-mohammed-trial_n_1489527.html" target="_hplink">self-described mastermind</a> of the attacks of 9/11, was captured in Pakistan in 2011 and is held at Guantanamo Bay. (AP Photo/FBI)

• Saif Al Adel

  Al Adel was Bin Laden's former <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120229/ml-egypt-arrest/" target="_hplink">security advisor</a>. He is still on the run. (Getty Images)

• Adnan El Shukrijumah

  El Shukrijumah is responsible for Al Qaeda's external operations. He <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/06/adnan-shukrijumah-new-al_n_673164.html" target="_hplink">lived in the U.S.</a> for more than 15 years. (FBI)

• Atiyah Abd al-Rahman

  Al-Rahman was Al Qaeda's liaison for Iraq, Iran and Algeria until he <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/27/atiyah-abd-al-rahman-al-qaeda-dead_n_939009.html" target="_hplink">was killed</a> on August 22, 2011 in Pakistan. (AP Photo/National Counterterrorism Center)

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Comments

[wowme]

02:32 PM on 05/08/2012

Our 5th most wanted is an underwear

[Bartolo27]

09:43 AM on 05/29/2012

wowme,

Yes it's true. Just ask Mitt Romney.
Underwear are people my friend.

[kilakhan]

05:16 AM on 05/07/2012

there is something wrong with the interpretation of a religion to be that any one that is not one of ours is an enemy. a world ruled by such a religion would be hellish to say the least. China had better open their eyes because one day it will be their turn.

[marymrevis]

03:40 PM on 05/05/2012

No worries..in due time these evil a**es WILL BE CAUGHT and made to join Bin Laden in the ocean. Let's hope the U.S. will do a little "imaginative interrogation" first *sly grin*

[bob40wil]

04:16 PM on 05/04/2012

They ae working on his Hellfire missle as we speak.

[MarlaHooch]

12:25 PM on 05/04/2012

I'm looking forward to the Obama Administration coloring in Zawahiri's forehead prayer callous with the tip of a Hellfire missile.

[taylor5]

09:43 AM on 05/02/2012

Prison escape? This is why I prefer the Obama way which consists of drone attacks at midnite vs the Bush way of a capturing, and torturing.

[rufus50]

09:00 AM on 05/02/2012

Nuke Pakistan. That will be the end of The Taliban. Why Hell, the common folks hate us anyway.

[ifished]

06:09 PM on 05/01/2012

Give it time, there are LOTS of rocks to look under for this scum.

[Harold R Hunt Sr]

05:04 PM on 05/01/2012

take the illegal mexicans tell them they can have a counrty of their own. All they have to do is get rid of the people that are there. 12 million and counting. lets take back america. Send the illegals else where.

[smp276dp]

04:59 PM on 05/01/2012

Tell him not to worry he will be with his friend sharing his virgins soon.
And we will wait for the time to have a one years anniverary of his passing also.
In fact they should make Bin Laden's day next year a national holiday.
Any one agree hands up.

[rufus50]

09:02 AM on 05/02/2012

Yes seven virgin Demons sticking it up their butts.

[R2D2-51]

03:50 PM on 05/01/2012

They have become too much of a liability, much like how other criminal syndicates use up actors to do their dirty work, the AQ is nothing more than a Roget's version of the former Mujhadeen an asset for dictating policy through the USA.

This is common knowledge for those who have been a part of the international intelligence apparatus engaged in clandestine operations.

While there is a wide breadth of material written on this subject, I have listed below several books which I have read over the last decade which provide some compelling insight into AQ which you will rarely if ever hear about through MSM for obvious reasons.

"Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander",(2006). by Gary Berntsen and Ralph Pezzullo

"9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA", (2005) by Webster Griffin Tarpley

"The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé" (2008). by David Ray Griffin

The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq" (2007).by Peter Eisner and Knut Royce

[bmitche]

12:49 PM on 05/01/2012

The attacks have just begun.

[Unca Allen]

02:37 PM on 05/01/2012

Whatever you say, Mustafah.

[hbssl]

12:46 PM on 05/01/2012

Obama has become one nasty president. You have hand it to him, he has not acted like a peace loving liberal, he has acted like the executioner. No telling how many people he is personally responsible for their deaths. When he signs off on an operation and the boys carry it out these people are blown to bits and any unfortunate souls anywhere close to them. When I look at him I see the Executioner. Go get em pres

[taylor5]

09:45 AM on 05/02/2012

Nothing wrong with identifying terrorists by DNA examination of body parts.

[360Dunk]

11:18 AM on 05/01/2012

Happy Deathday, bin Laden.

[mww1017]

11:07 AM on 05/01/2012

nuke em all

[Harold R Hunt Sr]

04:58 PM on 05/01/2012

YA,NUKE EM ALL AND MAKE PARKING LOTS FOR WALMART AND MC DONALDS.