A Different View on Remembering 9/11

Day 1,757, 08:43 • Published in USA USA • by Jon Malcom

Dear Americans and Rick Von Ruger,

Every year we remember what happened on 9/11. We remember the dead.



Let's remember things a little differently, shall we?

Let's remember the dead.


1. Osama Bin Laden

Founder and leader of al Qaeda, responsible for the 9/11 attacks against the US as well as numerous other mass casualty attacks. He was killed by US Navy Seals during a raid on his compound in Abbottabad,Pakistan in May 2011


2. Muhammad Atef

Founding member and military chief of al Qaeda. He was killed by a US airstrike during early fighting in Afghanistan in November 2001


3. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

A militant jihadist who opposed US presence in the Middle East and had a profound hatred for Israel. He formed his own terrorist group, Tawhid wal-Jihad. In 2004, he pledged alliance to al Qaeda and changed the name of his group to al Qaeda in Iraq. He was responsible for hundreds of attacks in Iraq. US bombs killed Zarqawi in Iraq in June 2006.


4. Abu Layth al-Libi

Senior al Qaeda military commander who planned attacks against US and coalition forces in Afghanistan including a 2007 bombing of the Bagram Air Base during a visit by then Vice President Richard Cheney. He was killed in a drone attack in Pakistan in March 2008

5.Atiyah Abd al-Rahman

Until his recent death, he was the number 2 to al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and was a key facilitator with al Qaeda affiliates. Materials seized in the Bin Laden compound showed Rahman was in frequent contact with Bin Laden. He was killed by a drone strike in Pakistan in August 2011


6. Abu Hamza Rabia

Third ranking member of al Qaeda who replaced Muhammad Atef after his death. He served as an operational planner for attacks against the US and was killed by a drone strike in Pakistan in November 2005

7. Abu Ayyub al Masri

Replaced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as leader of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and the insurgency in Iraq. He was killed in a joint US/Iraq operation in April 2010

8. Sayeed al-Masri (also known as Abu Shaykh Mustafa Abu al-Yazid)

Number 3 in al Qaeda hierarchy, commander of operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and chief financial officer. He was killed in drone strike in Pakistan in May 2010

9.Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim

Senior operational manager, deputy chief of external operations, head of propaganda for al Qaeda. He was killed by a drone strike in Pakistan in October 2008

10. Abu Khabab al-Masri (also known as Midhat Mursi)

Al Qaeda's chief bomb maker and chemical weapons expert. He was killed in a drone attack in Pakistan in July 2008

11. Abu Obeidah al Masri

Senior al Qaeda operative who was implicated in the 2006 Trans-Atlantic plot to bomb commercial airliners after take off from London. He died of natural causes in December 2007


12. Anwar al-Awlaki

[UPDATE September 30, 2011😮fficials report al-Awlaki has been killed]
Yemeni American, Muslim cleric who advocated violent jihad against the United States. He was connected to two of the 9/11 hijackers as well as the accused Ft. Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Milik Hasan and suspected underwear bomber Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab. He was considered an operational leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen. A CIA drone strike killed Awlaki in September 2011.