"Definitely, one by one, we are getting the top echelons of al-Qaida," said King, R-N.Y.
"I give the (Obama) administration credit for this: it's steady and it's unrelenting and it's very successful."Abu Ghaith became an international name in late 2001 when he appeared on pan-Arab satellite television urging Muslims everywhere to fight the United States and warning of more attacks similar to those of Sept. 11.
In one video, he was sitting with bin Laden in front of a rock face in Afghanistan. A teacher and mosque preacher in Kuwait, he was stripped of his Kuwaiti citizenship after 9/11.