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January 31st, 2008
Posted: 04:03 PM ET

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A wanted al Qaeda terrorist who sources said plotted and executed attacks against U.S. and coalition forces, including a February 2007 bombing at Bagram Air Base during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, was killed in Pakistan, a knowledgeable Western official and a military source told CNN Thursday.

He was identified as Abu Laith al-Libi, who was on the military’s most wanted list.

Radical Islamist Web sites announced al-Libi’s death. “May God have mercy on Sheikh Abu Laith al-Libi and accept him with his brothers, with the martyrs,” said a eulogy posted on a main Islamist site, Al-Ekhlaas.

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.


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