After Pentagon officials earlier today reported an airstrike against “an al-Qaeda associated target” in Libya, some Libyan officials are claiming that Algerian Mokhtar Belmokhtar was the target, and was slain in the US attacks. Other Libyan officials later said three were killed, but they couldn’t conclusively identify them yet.
Pentagon officials aren’t confirming that yet, and Belmokhtar has been reported slain more than a few times in recent years, most recently during the French war in Mali. Top-ranking Islamists are often falsely reported slain on a fairly regular basis.
Belmokhtar was a figure within al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and had claimed credit for the 2013 Ameriras hostage-taking incident in Algeria, in which 39 hostages and 29 militants were slain. He had been listed by the State Department as a terrorist financier since 2003.
Whether he was an extent member of AQIM was unclear at the time of the strike, however, as he was reportedly involved in leadership disputes in the group and had threatened to found an alternative faction. Exactly what came of this was the subject of much speculation.
However,ISIS few miles away in Sirte is spared such airstrike and allowed to spread its tentacles unmolested and take over ?Could it be actually a "western " creation and working for them to advance their agenda in Libya?Air strike against a group that actually was fighting ISIS?News coming from independent sources in Libya actually it was United Arab Emirates jets flying from bases in Egypt who carried the attack against a group opposed to Hafter whom the United Arab Emirates is supporting in his drive to rule the country?", "Libyan officials" are claiming that Algerian Mokhtar Belmokhtar was the target, and was slain in the US attacks."Who are these officials ?Are they the same officials who have ought spreading false news so many times before?
sounds like it's very unclear about everything but he's dead anyway. He was this guy, who might be, or still be, anyway… he did "fancy hand" and this "fancy hands" … he's dead. Justice… next on the list.