Kadhafi in top health, planning defence: spokesman

NICOSIA: Moamer Kadhafi is “in excellent health and planning and organising Libya’s defence,” his spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told Syria’s Arrai television channel on Monday.

“We are still powerful,” he said, adding that the sons of the toppled dictator “had assumed their role in the defence of and sacrifice for” their country.

Pledging “a fight to the death or until victory,” Ibrahim, who is thought to be in the loyalist oasis town of Bani Walid that has been besieged by anti-Kadhafi fighters, said: “We will fight and resist for Libya and for all Arabs.”

Ibrahim branded the new rulers “NATO agents” and accused them of “committing crimes, above all rape, murder and looting.”

He said: “Libya will never fall and the worthy tribes are defending and will continue to defend each of the free towns and recapture those that have been raped.” AGENCIES

Senior al Qaeda operative killed in missile strike

MIRANSHAH: A senior al Qaeda leader, Shaikh al-Fateh, isbelieved to have been killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike in a Pakistani tribal region on the Afghan border this week, intelligence officials said on Tuesday.

Al-Fateh was travelling through North Waziristan, a region known as a hotbed of al Qaeda and Taliban militants, when his vehicle was hit by a missile on Sept. 26, an intelligence official said.

“Four Arabs were travelling in that vehicle and Shaikh al-Fateh was one of them,” the official said only identifying him as an “important al Qaeda” leader.

According to LongWarJournal.org, which tracks militant groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan, al-Fateh — also possibly known as Shaikh Fateh al-Masri — is the operational commander for al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, having taken over from Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, who was killed in a drone attack in

Senior al Qaeda operative killed in missile strike

MIRANSHAH: A senior al Qaeda leader, Shaikh al-Fateh, isbelieved to have been killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike in a Pakistani tribal region on the Afghan border this week, intelligence officials said on Tuesday.

Al-Fateh was travelling through North Waziristan, a region known as a hotbed of al Qaeda and Taliban militants, when his vehicle was hit by a missile on Sept. 26, an intelligence official said.

“Four Arabs were travelling in that vehicle and Shaikh al-Fateh was one of them,” the official said only identifying him as an “important al Qaeda” leader.

According to LongWarJournal.org, which tracks militant groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan, al-Fateh — also possibly known as Shaikh Fateh al-Masri — is the operational commander for al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, having taken over from Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, who was killed in a drone attack in

Arab League chief says Gaza siege must be ”broken”

RAFAH: Arab League chief Amr Mussa said during his first-ever visit to the Gaza Strip on Sunday that a four-year siege on the Hamas-run territory must be “broken.”

“This blockade which we are all here to confront must be broken and the position of the Arab League is clear,” Mussa said after Palestinian officials from several factions welcomed him at the Rafah border with Egypt.

“Not only the Arabs, but the entire world should stand with the Palestinian people against the siege of Gaza and what is happening in the occupied territories, especially east Jerusalem,” he said.

Troops Kill 4 Militants In South Waziristan

TrendPK.com Troops Kill 4 Militants In South Waziristan : Security forces killed at least four suspected militants, including three Foreigners, and arrested another 27 during a Crackdown at a hospital in South Waziristan.
The dead Foreigners include two Arabs and a Bangladeshi.
According to officials, security forces attacked the Hafiz Hospital in Wana, which [...]