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Al-Qaida denies US strike killed militant commander Belmokhtar

By REUTERS

JUNE 19, 2015 12:35

Updated: JUNE 19, 2015 12:37

CAIRO - Al-Qaida's North Africa branch has denied reports that Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a major figure in insurgencies across North Africa and the Saharan border region, was killed in a US air strike in Libya.

SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors radical Islamist organizations in the media, cited a statement from al-Qa-da in the Islamic Maghreb posted on Twitter declaring that Belmokhtar, also known as Khalid Abu al-Abbas, is alive.

"The mujahid commander Khalid Abu al-Abbas is still alive and well, and he wanders and roams in the land of Allah, supporting his allies and vexing his enemies," said the statement.

Libya's government said on June 15 that the militant blamed for a deadly attack on an Algerian gas field was dead.

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