have 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 11.
a predator drone got him in
afghanistan in 2001.
abu zubaydah lasted longer, he
was captured in march of 2002
and now resides in guantanamo
bay.
he has been waterboarded 83
times.
investigators determined he
wasn't a number three, and
according to "the washington
post," not even a formal member
of al qaeda.
next came khalid sheikh
mohammed.
he too is now a resident of
guantanamo bay.
abu faraj al libi was captured
in 2005, he then joined his
predecessors in guantanamo bay.
hamza rabia was killed six
months in pakistan, then came
the longest-running al qaeda
number three, abu laith al-libi.
he was killed in january 2008.
that gave sheikh al-masri his
lead,...