Taking deadly threats

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Pakistan deserved credit for their hard investigative and operational work in taking deadly threats like Al Qaeda leader Younis Al-Mauritani off the battlefield. Please tell me the meaning of underlined words,I also used dictionary but could not understand.

[Tdol]

Through their work people like him have ceased to be a threat- either through capture or death.

[TheParser]

Pakistan deserved credit for their hard investigative and operational work in taking deadly threats like Al Qaeda leader Younis Al-Mauritani off the battlefield. Please tell me the meaning of underlined words,I also used dictionary but could not understand.

NOT A TEACHER


(1) I interpret that as follows:

(a) Pakistan deserves credit.

(b) Why? Because it either arrested or killed that man. (The sentence is not specific.)

(c) Before that happened, that man was a leader on the battlefield.

(d) He was a deadly threat. That is, while he was a leader on the battlefield,

there was always the chance that he (and his men) would kill a lot of people.

Now that he in in prison or dead, he is no longer a threat (danger) to the

people on the battlefield.