the recent deaths of usama bin laden, ilyas kashmiri and atiyah abd al-rahman, capping off a decade's worth of comprehensive efforts to attack al qaeda, has left it weakened. but now is no time to let up. for us at treasury, that means continuing to concentrate on disrupting al qaeda's financial and material support networks. just yesterday, we designated three senior pakistan-based al qaeda leaders, including al qaeda commander abu yahya al-libi, atiyah's deputy until atiyah's death last month, and younis al-mauritani, a long-time al qaeda fighter in charge of al qaeda's external operations as recently as last year, who was arrested by pakistani authorities just a few days ago. these actions follow a set of designations we announced in july targeting a key financial pipeline for al qaeda, which runs from kuwait and qatar, through iran and into pakistan, and which depends on an agreement between al qaeda and the iranian government to allow this network to operate within iran's borders. so job one is to continue our intensive focus on shutting down al qaeda's pipelines of money, men an

atiyah al-rahman, al qaeda's most recent number two, ilyas kashmiri, a senior commander charged with planning foreign attacks, and fazul mohammed, one of the key operatives behind the 1998 bombings of two u.s. embassies in africa. and earlier this month, senior al qaeda leader younis al- mauritani, was captured in pakistan. all of these have occurred since osama bin laden was killed may 1. >> there's nothing static about counterterrorism. >> reporter: michael leiter who, until july, ran the national counterterrorism center, says al qaeda, now run by ayman al- zawahiri, is critically wounded. is that network still capable of a large-scale attack? >> really the ranks of al qaeda in pakistan have been very seriously thinned. so i think they can still pull off an attack, but i think it's much less likely that they could pull off a catastrophic attack like 9/11. >> reporter: beyond losing operatives, al qaeda is also losing some popular support. >> over time, al qaeda's message is resonating less and less. al qaeda's methods of attacks, suicide bombings against innocents, is becoming less

the most recent example was the killing earlier this month of al qaeda's number two man atiyah abd alontact between osama bin laden and the rest of the al qaeda network. u.s. officials say his death in a drone strike was hugely significant as it was his job to organize attacks against the united states. brian ross, abc news, new york. >>> the safest roads in the country when you compare accident rates are in ft. collins, colorado. for the second year in a row allstate insurance ranked drivers in ft. collins as the safest in the country. the collision rate there is more than 28% below the national average. shington, d.c. ranks at the very bottom of allstate's survey again, the third year in a row the nation's capital is last on the list of hundreds of cities and their accident rates. >> nice sound effect there, right? >> that's the truth, what it sounds like. oh, man, take it easy in d.c. >> fender bender. >>> this next video shows an amazing, seemingly impossible combination of fire and water. it shows a member of the red bull surf team who strapped a flare onto his surfboard before c

atiyah al rahman, dead. the u.s. hasn't been able to tack down amman alza war had i.ruiter, al awlaki, dead and adam gadhan, still alive. joining me now is cnn national security contributor fran townsend, member of the national external advisory committees. fran, tell us a little bit about this guy, first of all, awlaki. where why was he so powerful? >> awlaki, he was so powerful because he was an american-born al qaeda member, he spoke fluid english, idio mattic english, co-speak in slang, he could appeal to the passions of westerners for recruitment which, of course is a huge tremendously valuable tool for al qaeda. he was also very powerful in terms of the recruiting the lone wolf. remember, nadal hasan, the fort hood shooter who shot and killed his fellow soldiers, there is the christmas day attempted underwear bomber, there was the cargo plane, the cart ridges in the computers, all of which he was linked to but this is not -- he is not new to the al qaeda scene. he goes back, as we have been reporting, to the 9/11 hijackers, two of which with he was imam to in sa