Abu Yahya al Libi killed in US strike

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Abu Yahya al Libi killed in US strike

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11 December,2009 09:53 pm

Abu Yahya al Libi, a key leader of Al Qaeda, has been killed in Tuesdays airstrike in South Waziristan, a US magazine has reported. A US drone targeted a vehicle by launching two missiles in Sipalga area, 12 kilometers from Miranshah, North Waziristan. Three people including two foreigners had been killed in the attack.The US officials have claimed that one of the dead is wanted leader of Al-Qaeda Abu Yahya al Libi. Libi had fled from a US detention facility in Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan in 2005. The US had put a bounty of one million dollars for his arrest.