US airstrike hits at Libya militant leader

The US military said it believes weekend air strikes killed an al Qaida-linked militant leader in eastern Libya who was charged with leading the attack on a gas plant in Algeria in 2013 that killed at least 35 hostages, including three Americans.

However, an Islamist with ties to Libyan militants aid the strikes missed Mokhtar Belmokhtar and instead killed four members of a Libyan extremist group the US has linked to the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi on September 11 2012 in which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.