UPDATE: U.S. officials confirmed Tuesday afternoon that al-Libi was killed in the drone strike.
With reporting from Barbara Starr
Abu Yahya al-Libi, the no. 2 man in al Qaeda and a longtime public face of the terror network, has been targeted by a drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region, a U.S. official said Tuesday.
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Investigators are trying to determine whether al-Libi was injured or killed in the Monday hit, which left 15 militants dead and three others wounded, the official said. Intelligence officials may find out al-Libi's fate only from monitoring websites and chatter, according to the official.
A senior Pakistani official said investigators have to verify that al-Libi was among the dead. Eight of the victims from the strike were "foreigners," with most of them Arabs, the Pakistani official said.
The drone fired at least six missiles at a militant compound near the town of Mir Ali in the North Waziristan region near the Afghanistan border.
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Pakistan is in moaning! Yet another terrorist (who pays the Pakis for protection) is gone! Even Mitt Romney must be having a sleepless night! He has to rewrite all his campaign speeches because by November, Obama will have destroyed Al Quida! Will the GOP continue to preach that George W's policies alone made this possible? George W. never eliminated one significant terrorist leader! It just wasn't that important. Protecting huge profits from war was the priority! Obama has successfully proven that the GOP is completely wrong! Wars CAN be ended!
Now our GOP wants to coddle the wealthy with more tax cuts and generous benefits. Wait a minute! The wealthy, the big corporations, the "too big to fail" banks have been doing very well lately. Wall Street just screwed everyone one more time, and the big banks are surprisingly very profitable. Who benefits? Only Mitt's people!
As a "middle class" American, I find it unacceptable that my credit card rates are 19% to 29%, I get charged a fee every month by my bank for having a checking account (rich people don't get charged!). The banks borrow money for about 0% today! No wonder they are doing quite well! When 1% pays nothing, but the 99% pay a lot, guess who gets rich?
This is a message for CNN owners, administrators, editors, etc...
STOP MANIPULATING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE !!!!!
Jeremy, 10 mos later we now have had 70+ banks fail, and it ain't over yet. A real estate group eastmties that foreclosures are going to continue CLIMBING through 09 AND '10, and based on the assumption that the economy recovers sometime in '10, the foreclosures will gradually trail off (historically, unemployment continues to rise even after the end' of the recession.) This means we have yet to pass the 50% mark on the total foreclosures due to the bubble and the current recession!
We should be destroying likud leadership in Israel.
They are the true blue terror peddlers...
I guess that if this guy gets murdered by a C.I.A. drone, there'll be another field day in Washington D.C. How disgusting!!!
We all know the dirty games India is playing in the region...financing terrorists who are killing US/NATO/Pakistani troops ....undermining democracies, paying off some factions of talibans protection money so they won't do another Mumbai attack, All this because they are scared of Al Qaeda and Talibans. INDIANS....we dare you to stop hiding behind American skirts and come out in the open and face these terrorists eye to eye and NOT to run away from them and take bullets in the back. We dare you cowards !!!!
I bet he wasn't even there.
He is very brown..I bet he is really crispy now
. Hope you had fun shooting your big mouth off, not anymore 
....Please Confirm.
Towel Heads is what Towel Heads do.
This is a tremendous loss to Pakistan. Their towel sales will go down, which really hurts especially in this economy.