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Al-Qaeda No. 2 met deputy at scene of strike
Canadian Press

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Al-Qaeda's second-in-command met his deputy last year at a house hit in a recent U.S. missile strike in which at least four of the terror network's operatives may have died, Pakistani intelligence officials said Saturday.

Ayman al-Zawahri, the apparent target of the Jan. 13 attack, met his deputy, Abu Farraj al-Libbi, in Damadola early last year, a security official said on condition of anonymity, adding that Libyan-born Al-Libbi told Pakistani interrogators of the meeting after his capture in May 2005.

"His statement was later verified, and we were able to confirm that al-Zawahri visited Damadola," the official said. "We have intelligence reports that Ayman al-Zawahri visited the house of one Bakhtpur Khan months before what happened last week."

Al-Libbi, once al-Qaeda's No. 3 leader, is accused of masterminding two attempts to assassinate Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf for making the Islamic nation a key ally of the United States in its war on terror. After his arrest in Pakistan, he was turned over to Washington for further investigations.

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