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Al Qaeda commander in Pakistan reportedly killed in U.S. missile strike (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News) |
The Americans had a $200,000 bounty on his head. He tried to assassinate Vice President Cheney last year in Afghanistan, say US officials. But one of Al Qaeda’s most senior commanders in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, appears to be dead. He was killed in a US missile strike in a remote part of Pakistan this week, according to a radical Islamist website.
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