Hits and Misses

Since 2001, the U.S. and its allies have killed or captured several top al-Qaeda operatives, including the architects of 9/11. But the group's leaders have eluded capture--and a new generation is stepping in

OSAMA BIN LADEN Saudi Breaking his silence, the al-Qaeda leader last week offered a "truce" to the U.S.

AT LARGE The audiotape provides no clues as to his whereabouts

AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI Egyptian Bin Laden's No. 2 was the intended target of a Jan. 13 missile strike in Pakistan

AT LARGE Believed to be hiding near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border

OMAR AL-FARUQ Kuwaiti A top operative in Southeast Asia; captured in Indonesia in June 2002

AT LARGE Escaped from Bagram air base, July 2005

ABU MOUSAB AL-ZARQAWI Jordanian Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq; has a $25 million bounty on his head

AT LARGE Continues to elude U.S. commandos in Iraq

SAIF AL-ADEL Egyptian Bin Laden's security chief, believed to have taken over duties of fallen aides

AT LARGE Thought to be affiliated with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad

ABDULLAH AHMED ABDULLAH Egyptian Serves as the terrorist network's operational planner

AT LARGE On the FBI's most-wanted list, believed to be in Afghanistan

ABU ZUBAYDAH Palestinian Part of bin Laden's inner circle, he was chief of recruiting and operations

CAPTURED Caught during a gunfight in Pakistan, March 2002

KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED Kuwaiti The principal architect of the 9/11 attacks

CAPTURED Arrested in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, March 2003

RAMZI BINALSHIBH Yemeni Helped plan the 2001 attacks; was a key member of the Hamburg cell

CAPTURED Captured in Karachi, Pakistan, September 2002

ABU FARAJ AL-LIBBI Libyan Took over as No. 3 in al-Qaeda after Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's arrest

CAPTURED Arrested in Waziristan, Pakistan, May 2005

RIDUAN ISAMUDDIN Indonesian Headed operations in Southeast Asia; planned the 2002 Bali bombing

CAPTURED Caught in Ayutthaya, Thailand, August 2003

MOHAMMED ATEF Egyptian Al-Qaeda's former military commander was responsible for bin Laden's security

KILLED He died during a U.S. air raid in Afghanistan in November 2001

STRUCK DOWN? Pakistani officials said last week that the Jan. 13 U.S. air strike on the village of Damadola may have killed as many as four al-Qaeda operatives. Pakistan had previously claimed that the strike, which killed 18 civilians and provoked anti-U.S. protests, had missed its intended target, Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's deputy. Among the operatives believed to have been killed were ABU KHABAB AL-MASRI, left, a top bombmaker who ran a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. Pakistani officials say that the strike also killed ABU UBAYDA AL-MISRI, an al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan, and ABDUL RAHMAN AL-MAGHREBI--son-in-law of al-Zawahiri.