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TRIPOLI, Libya A Libyan security official says gunmen have killed the head of the regional military police in the eastern city of Benghazi. The official told The Associated Press that masked gunmen fired from a car at Col. Ahmed Mostafa el-Barghathy at his house in Benghazi as he was heading to the mosque to attend Friday prayers. The official says El-Barghathy suffered chest and head injuries in the attack. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to give information to the media. El-Barghathy served in the Libyan army during the reign of the deposed leader Muammar...

A top al-Qaeda network member, reportedly in a Sudanese jail, was killed before the September 11 terror attacks on the United States, the Arab daily Al-Hayat reported Friday. "Abu Anas al-Liby was killed in Afghanistan before September 11," a leading Islamist told the London-based paper, on condition of anonymity, without disclosing further details, according to AFP. Al-Liby, whose arrest was first reported by Britain's Sunday Times and was then denied by a top Sudanese official, is charged with plotting the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people and implicated in the 1995 assassination attempt against...