Home pagePress CenterIn the Media David Heyman, director of the CSIS Homeland Security Program, was quoted by Reuters, "Senior Afghanistan Qaeda Leader Libi Killed."
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David Heyman, director of the CSIS Homeland Security Program, was quoted by Reuters, "Senior Afghanistan Qaeda Leader Libi Killed."
A senior Al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, described by Western authorities as one of Osama bin Laden's top six lieutenants, has been killed, U.S. officials and an al-Qaeda-linked Web site said on Thursday.
The Web site said Abu Laith al-Libi had been killed in Pakistan, suggesting he may have died in a suspected U.S. missile strike that killed up to 13 foreign militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan border area this week. [...]
Libi may have been linked to a suicide bomb attack at the Bagram military base during a visit by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney last February, said Security analyst David Heyman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The Western official, who asked not to be identified, said it was "certainly plausible to think that at a minimum he had knowledge of it if not active involvement."
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