Nearing the end of our list is number eight; Aslam Awan. He was a senior al Qaeda external operations planner, which I am beginning to believe means that he was the leader of that division. He was apparently responsible for the planning of attacks against the West. The article stated that he was not well known to the public but was known to the “intelligence community.” This seems to infer that the rest of the names on the list were well known. I can see how the rewarded guys could have been known, but I still haven’t heard of most of these people. He died on January 10.
Adis Medunjanin is number nine on the list. He was given the job by senior external operations leaders (maybe he knew our number eight) to blow up the New York subway. Fortunately, thanks to the United States law enforcement, he was stopped a few days before he was able to complete his task. Medunjanin is actually the only name on this list that wasn’t killed in some kind of drone strike, air strike, or operation. On November 16 he was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction and other charges.
Last but not least is number ten; Sheikh Khalid bin Abdel Rehman which is apparently one name. He was a senior leader and religioes figure in al Qaeda. How a person could be a religious figure I have no idea. Sheikh Khalid bin Abdel Rehman was killed in a drone strike in December and was allegedly the successor of another man who was killed in a drone strike and also happens to be number one on our list.
I stated at the beginning of my post that I found two main things interesting; my ignorance on what the terrorists did and who they were, and how they died. I would really like to point out the fact that only one of the men, number nine, is actually still alive. The rest were pretty much killed by drone strikes, whatever those may be. I guess a lesson to learn from this might be to not become involved with a terrorist organization because you will probably die by drone strike. (373)
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