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Al Qaeda Chief Killed - Mali

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Post by Sabre 3/3/2013, 12:02

The al Qaeda commander who led the deadly assault on the In
Amenas gas plant in Algeria has been killed, according to the Chad military.

Armed forces from Chad say Mokhtar Belmokhtar was killed when they targeted
and destroyed a terrorist base in northern Mali.

The death of one of the world's most wanted jihadists would be a major blow
to al Qaeda in the region and to Islamist rebels already forced to flee towns
they had seized in northern Mali by an offensive by French and African
troops.

"On Saturday, March 2, at noon, Chadian armed forces operating in northern
Mali completely destroyed a terrorist base," Chadian armed forces spokesman
General Zacharia Gobongue said in a statement read on national television.

"The toll included several dead terrorists, including their leader Mokhtar
Belmokhta."

Belmokhtar claimed responsibility for the seizure of dozens of foreign
hostages at the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria in January in which more than 60
people were killed.
Al Qaeda Chief Killed - Mali 8927610-1-1-522x293 More than 60 people were killed in the attack
on the In Amenas gas plant
The report of his death comes days after Chad's President Idriss Deby said
soldiers in Mali had killed another leading al Qaeda commander in the Sahara,
Adelhamid Abou Zeid.

French officials said they could not confirm the killing of either Abou Zeid
or Belmokhtar.

Sky's foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall said that if his death is
confirmed, al Qaeda in North Africa will have been deprived of "one of the most
battle-hardened leaders".

The Foreign Office says it is aware of the reports and is looking into
them.

Algerian-born Belmokhtar has been fighting as an Islamist militant for more
than two decades.

He claimed to have received military training in Afghanistan before returning
to Algeria, where he lost an eye fighting in the Islamist insurgency in the
1990s.

He then joined AQIM - which operates across the Sahara - before breaking off
to lead his own group.

He is also known as Mr Marlboro because of his alleged role in cigarette
smuggling in the region.

Chad is one of several African nations that have contributed forces to a
French-led military intervention in Mali aimed at ridding its vast northern
desert of Islamist rebels who seized the area nearly a year ago following a coup
in the capital.

Western and African countries are worried that al Qaeda could use the zone to
launch international attacks and strengthen ties with African Islamist groups
like al Shabaab in Somalia and Boko Haram in Nigeria.
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