Pentagon: Counter-terrorism strike conducted in Libya, Al-Qaeda leader KILLED

by SooperMexican

Looks like the good guys struck again in the craphole that Hillary Clinton left behind after getting the world to topple Qaddafi.

Watch below:

More from the Telegraph:

Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the celebrated Al-Qaeda jihadist known as the “one-eyed sheikh” who led the 2013 attack on an Algerian gas plant that killed 39 people, has been killed in a US air strike, according to Libyan authorities.

The Pentagon confirmed it had struck an “Al-Qaeda-associated militant” in Libya on Saturday night, and that it was assessing the success of the operation.

There have been numerous previous, unfounded claims of Belmokhtar’s death, which have only added to his mystique. However, the eastern-based Libyan faction that forms the internationally recognised government said it had participated in the operation.

“The Libyan government in the east of Libya confirms that the US fighter jets conducted air strikes last night in a mission which resulted in the death of the terrorist Belmokhtar,” a statement said.

Eight other militants, belonging to another militant group Ansar al-Sharia, were said to have been killed at the same time.

The strike would be the first against a target in the North African country since the end of the war against Col Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

The US-led coalition has been targeting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in both Iraq and Syria, and there had been speculation that campaign would be broadened due to the spread of Isil in Gaddafi’s former home town of Sirte and other Libyan cities.

The Pentagon statement however made no mention of Isil.

Col Steve Warren, the spokesman, said the target had been an “Al-Qaeda-associated militant” and that the strike had been “successful”, without elaborating.

“We are assessing the results of the operation and will provide additional information as and when appropriate,” he said.

Col. Warren said he did not know exactly where the strike was, or whether it was carried out by a jet or an unmanned drone

I found this unsubstantiated video of the attack, from a Middle East reporter:


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