particularly deadly. that's because the operations chief has to transmit a lot of guidance to al qaeda, which helps the cia track them down. so now in ten years of this war with al qaeda, here's what it's been like been al qaeda's number three, which is really al qaeda number two now with bin laden out of the top spot. mohammed atef survived just two months in the job after september 11th. a predator drone got him in afghanistan in 2001. abu zubaydah lasted longer, he lasted a lot longer in life. was captured in march of 2002 and now resides in guantanamo bay. he has been famously waterboarded 83 times. investigators determined he wasn't a number three, and according to "the washington post," not even a former member of al qaeda. next came khalid sheikh mohammed. who was captured in pakistan in march, 2003. he too is now a resident of guantanamo bay. abu faraj al libi served just over two years before getting captured in 2005. he then joined his predecessors in guantanamo bay. hamza...