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Al Qaeda's second in command has been killed in a drone strike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, a US official has said. Abu Yahya al Libi is the latest in a series of the terror group's most senior and powerful commanders to be removed by the US drone campaign in the region. Al Libi, who had appeared in al Qaeda propaganda videos and escaped from an American military prison in Afghanistan in 2005, was a key figure in what remains of the core al Qaeda network. Major Al Qaeda Leaders Killed By US Drone Strikes :: February 9, 2012: Badr Mansoor is killed in Miran Shah, Pakistan :: September 30, 2011: Anwar al-Awlaki is killed in in the mountains of Yemen :: September 11, 2011: Abu Hafs al Shahri, chief of operations in Pakistan, is killed :: August 22, 2011: Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, then...
