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January 31st, 2008
Posted: 01:50 PM ET
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A senior al Qaeda terrorist who has been active in operational planning and training has been killed in Pakistan, a knowledgeable Western official and an unnamed military source told CNN Thursday. They identified the terrorist as Abu Laith al-Libi. The knowledgeable Western official said al-Libi is “not far below the importance of the top two al Qaeda leaders” — Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. He is of Libyan descent and was believed to have been in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border region, according to the U.S. military. A U.S. military official with Combined Joint Task Force-82 — the anti-terror unit responsible for searching for al-Libi in Afghanistan — said they have no information on al-Libi’s death. But he added that the unit does not collect information from outside of Afghanistan, and would be informed of targeted operations only “if the Pakistani military share(s) that with us.” |
 
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