What follows is a list of the top terrorist who were captured or killed by the Obama Administration. It was compiled by Jake tapper in this article. I simply shortened some of his descriptions and included the count for your consumption. Tapper’s article points out that the false meme of Obama being “soft on terror” is completely bogus.
Meanwhile, “Gallupmessen” is up with another one of their badly timed, red-meat tea party findings:
“PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans see the Republican Party as better able than the Democratic Party to protect the country from terrorism and military threats, and to keep the country prosperous over the next few years.”
http://www.gallup.com/...
So um, here’s uh…nevermind:
1. Osama bin Laden, killed in May.
2. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Anwar al-Awlaki as of today.
3. Chief of Pakistan operations, Abu Hafs al-Shahri, was killed in Waziristan.
4. In August ‘Atiyah ‘Abd al-Rahman, the deputy leader of al Qaeda was killed.
5. One of the group’s most dangerous commanders, Ilyas Kashmiri, killed.
6, 7. AQAP senior operatives Ammar al-Wa’ili, Abu Ali al-Harithi, and Ali Saleh Farhan were killed in Yemen.
8. In Somalia, Al-Qa’ida in East Africa (AQEA) senior leader Harun Fazul was killed.
9. U.S./Pakistani joint arrest of Younis al-Mauritani in Quetta.
10. August 2009, Tehrik e-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mahsud was killed in Pakistan.
11. September 2009, Jemayah Islamiya operational planner Noordin Muhammad Top was killed in Indonesia.
12. AQEA planner Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was killed in Somalia.
13,14. December 2009 in Pakistan, al Qaeda operational commanders Saleh al-Somali and ‘Abdallah Sa’id were killed.
15. In February 2010, in Pakistan, Taliban deputy and military commander Abdul Ghani Beradar was captured.
16. February 2010, Haqqani network commander Muhammad Haqqani was killed.
17. February 2010, Lashkar-e Jhangvi leader Qari Zafar was killed.
18. March 2010, al Qaeda operative Hussein al-Yemeni was killed in Pakistan
19.Senior Jemayah Islamiya operative Dulmatin - accused of being the mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombings – was killed during a raid in Indonesia.
20. In April 2010, al Qaeda in Iraq leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi were killed.
21.In May, al Qaeda’s number three commander, Sheik Saeed al-Masri was killed.
22. In June 2010 in Pakistan, al Qaeda commander Hamza al-Jawfi was killed.
Um, at what point do we start giving Obama credit for keeping America safe?