article_snippet.sent: (Ahmed Farouq didn't have the prestige of fellow al Qaeda's figure Osama bin Laden, the influence of Anwar al-Awlaki, or the notoriety of Adam Gadahn.
article_snippet.sent: Still, (CNN)Ahmed Farouq didn't have the prestige of fellow al Qaeda figure Osama bin Laden, the influence of Anwar al-Awlaki, or the notoriety of Adam Gadahn was a big deal.
article_snippet.sent: Ahmed Farouq died in a U.S. counterterrorism airstrike in January, according to the White House.
article_snippet.sent: Before that, Ahmed Farouq was the deputy emir of al Qaeda's in the Indian Subcontinent, or AQIS, a branch of the Islamist extremist group that formed in recent years.
article_snippet.sent: Osama Mehmood, a spokesman for al Qaeda's in the Indian Subcontinent, said that Ahmed Farouq and another top figure, Qari Abdullah Mansur, were killed in a January 15 drone strike in Pakistan's Shawal Valley.
article_snippet.sent: Farouq and another top figure, Qari Abdullah Mansur, were killed in a January 15 drone strike in Pakistan's Shawal Valley were senior al Qaeda's leaders, according to Mehmood.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ahmed Farouq was a leader in al Qaeda's India branch .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Ahmed Farouq was killed in a U.S. counterterrorism airstrike in January .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Like Adam Gadahn, Ahmed Farouq was American and part of al Qaeda's .