Abu Laith al-Libbi al Qaeda terrorist killed

Senior al Qaeda terrorist Abu Laith al-Libbi, close confidant of Osama bin Laden, has been killed, Western official tells CNN.

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Perhaps they are trying to see if Bin Laden will die from loneliness.

 

Abu Laith al-Libi, one of al-Qaeda's most senior commanders, was killed in Pakistan on Monday, Western officials said today.

The officials declined to comment on whether Libi's death was related to a reported U.S. missile strike, launched from an unmanned Predator aircraft, that killed at least a dozen people Monday in Pakistan's North Waziristan region.

U.S. officials had offered a bounty of $200,000 for Libi, who used a nom de guerre and his whose true name was not known. He had been identified by U.S. officials as orchestrating the 2007 bombing of the U.S. base in Bagram, Afghanistan, during a visit by Vice President Cheney. Cheney was not injured, but 23 people were killed in the attack.

Libi fought Soviet troops in Afghanistan and was jailed by Saudi Arabian officials for two years for covert activities there. He was also believed to have organized an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi in the mid-1990s.

His death was first reported by al-Ekhlaas, a Web site often used by Islamic militants for announcements. The site carried a banner about his death, according to the Washington-based SITE Institute, which monitors such Web postings. "As the banner was posted on Ekhlaas by a webmaster of the forum, it seems as if the announcement of his death has been confirmed to the forum administrators," a SITE report said.

The SITE report quotes a posting on al-Ekhlaas by the al-Fajr Media Center, a radical Islamic news outlet linked to al-Qaeda. The al-Fajr statement says that Libi was "martyred" in the land of the "Muslim Pakistan" and that his death shows that Islamic leaders are fighting with their troops.

The Western officials confirming his death said that Libi, born in the Libyan city of Tripoli and believed to be in his early 40s, was among the top half dozen al-Qaeda officials and was active as a battlefield commander in attacks against U.S. and NATO forces in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.

He is also believed to have taken part in planning recent attacks against Western-related targets in Pakistan.

Libi also was featured in videos released by the militants. Last spring, al-Sahab, an affiliate of al-Qaeda, identified Libi as a bearded man accusing Shiite Muslims of fighting alongside U.S. troops in Iraq, the Associated Press reported. He also appeared last November in a video with al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri.

Libi was the primary interlocutor between the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and al-Qaeda, which last November announced they had joined forces. But Western officials believe he has been at or near bin Laden's side since at least the late 1980s, when bin Laden and Pakistan-based Afghan mujaheddin fought the Soviets in Afghanistan.

His death is seen as a major success for the U.S. military, which has been increasingly challenged in Afghanistan and the Pakistani border region by both al-Qaeda and resurgent Taliban forces.

 

Good riddence to him.

I bet the CIA are cobbling up another fake OBL video right now.

We haven't seen one of them for a while have we?

 

In the next video, we will see a very young, 11 year old Bin Laden, without a beard, and a high pitched squeaky voice.

 

no matter who is killed, you still show your support to bin laden...figures.

 

WTF are you talking about? AGS said good riddance to one of Bin Laden's close friends. AGS is 100% behind the "Kill Bin Laden with loneliness" strategy.

 

Remember when Rumsfeld said:

"He's alive or dead. He's in Afghanistan or somewhere else."

Maybe he is in one of Rumsfelds High Tech Fantasy Caves.

And remember according to Rumsfeld "There are not one of those, there are many of those."

You are right guerilla, I am 100% behind the "Kill Bin Laden with loneliness" strategy.

 

All Hail AGS

 

Musharraf has said that United States would be regarded as invaders if they crossed into Pakistan to hunt al-Qaida militants.

I wonder what Musharraf is going to say now.

 

Obviously some will be unhappy by the news, others will be down playing it, but it's good news, i think every none terrorist supporter on DP will agree with that.

 

GTech, is that you?

 

I see common sense is confusing to some, as well

 

Now, I really know it is GTech. This style of being obtuse and belligerent at the same time is very specific.

 

He's a complete clone of GTech, that is why I have him on permanent ignore.

One GTech is enough for anybody. We don't need another.

 

Is that better or worse than being a clone of Alex Jones?

 

Worse, definitely worse. We might be able to help you rediscover your own identity.

 

I'm not having an identity crisis, but you could spend your time helping some Americans rediscover their identity of being American instead of believeing their Al Qaeda operatives.