The indispensable Bill Roggio reports at the Long War Journal that we got a big fish, the highest ranking al Qaeda leader since Zarqawi. Let the dancing begin. The former commander of al Qaeda's military is thought to have been killed in a mid-December airstrike on a command center in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan. Abdullah Said al Libi, the leader of the Lashkar al Zil or Shadow Army, is believed to have been killed in the Dec. 17, 2009 swarm attack in the Datta Khel region in North Waziristan...... Abdullah Said al Libi was not initially reported to have been killed strike. His death was not confirmed until Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda's leader in Afghanistan, said al Libi was killed [see LWJ's exclusive report, "US killed al Qaeda’s Lashkar al Zil commander in airstrike"]. Yazid claimed the suicide attack on the CIA base in Khost that killed seven Americans and an Jordanian intelligence officer was carried out to "avenge" the death of al Libi, Saleh al Somali, al Qaeda's former external operations chief, and Baitullah Mehsud, the former leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Paksitan leader. "[This attack was carried out] to avenge our righteous martyrs, as he [the suicide bomber] (may God have mercy on him) wrote in his will: 'To avenge the leader, Amir Baitullah Mehsud, the leaders Abu Saleh al Somali and Abdullah Said al Libi, and their brothers (may God have mercy on them)," Yazid said in a statement released on the Internet.
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