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U.S. confident in killing top Al-Qaeda leader with drone strike

The United States said Tuesday it was certain a CIA drone strike killed Al-Qaeda number two Abu Yahya al-Libi, claiming its top scalp from the terror group since eliminating Osama bin Laden. A US official told AFP that Washington had a “high degree of confidence” that Libi was killed in…

U.S. drone strike targeted ‘Al-Qaeda No. 2′

A senior Al-Qaeda figure was the target of a US drone strike inPakistan’s tribal belt, reports said Tuesday, as officials kept tight-lipped on whether he may have been among the 15 people killed. Abu Yahya al-Libi, described by American officials as Al-Qaeda’s second in command but by other security experts as one…