Abdullah Said al Libi

{{Short description|Al-Qaeda member}}

{{redirect|Abdallah Sa'id (al Qaida leader)||Abdullah Said (disambiguation)}}

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| death_place = Pakistan

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Abdullah Said al-Libi (died 17 December 2009) was described as being an al Qaeda operational leader in Pakistan.

{{cite news

|url = https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g6KkslX8iLPH1UZnvja-rZVQAF4gD9DQMEO00

|title = Evolving US strategy widens assault on terrorists

|publisher = Associated Press

|date = 2010-02-12

|author = Matt Apuzzo

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100217040657/http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g6KkslX8iLPH1UZnvja-rZVQAF4gD9DQMEO00

|archive-date = 2010-02-17

|quote = Senior al-Qaida operatives Saleh al-Somali and Abdallah Sa'id were killed in airstrikes in December.

|url-status = dead

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{{cite news

|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/16/AR2010021605043.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

|title = What the partisan squabbles miss on Obama's terror response

|newspaper=The Washington Post

|date = 2010-02-17

|author = David Ignatius

|author-link = David Ignatius

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121110035629/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/16/AR2010021605043.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

|archive-date = 2012-11-10

|quote = These raids have ravaged the top tier of al-Qaeda's lieutenants. The victims include Saleh al-Somali, the chief of external operations, who was killed Dec. 8; Abdullah Said al-Libi, the chief of operations in Pakistan, who was killed Dec. 17; and Tahir Yuldashev, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, who was killed in August.

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}} He is reported to have previously served in the Libyan military. He led an al-Qaeda paramilitary force.{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=aqEwcvoakJMC&q=Warrick,+Joby+(2012).+The+Triple+Agent | last = Warrick | first = Joby | author-link = Joby Warrick | title = The Triple Agent | year = 2012 | publisher = Vintage Books | place = New York | pages = 90–91, 154, 157, 187 | isbn = 9780307742315 }} Said al-Libi was killed in a drone strike on 17 December 2009 in North Waziristan. In April 2009 he had released a statement where he identified himself as the leader of al Qaeda's efforts to take control of Khorasan - an ancient Islamic province that included Afghanistan, Pakistan, and some neighboring areas.

According to Joby Warrick, the author of The Triple Agent, al Libi had lived with Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, who would later convince Central Intelligence Agency officers that he was their double agent within al Qaeda, only to detonate a suicide bomb, killing several of them. His suicide bombing is said to have been in retaliation for the killing of al Libi, Abu Saleh al Somali and Baitullah Mehsud.