7.45pm GMT update  Top al-Qaida leader 'killed' in Afghanistan
Ekhlaas.org, a website that often posts communiqués from
Afghanistan and Iraq, reported that Abu Laith al-Libi - his name
suggests he is a Libyan national - had fallen as a "martyr",
without giving further details.  Libi is said to have been
behind last February's bombing at the US base at Bagram during a
visit by the US vice-president, Dick Cheney, which killed 23
people.  "It appears at this point that Libi has met his
demise," said one western official. "It was a major success in
taking one of the top terrorists in the world off the street."
He added that the death occurred "within the last few days".
Libi joined the Afghan mujahedin in the 1980s to fight Soviet
occupation and tried to overthrow the Libyan leader Colonel
Muammar Gadafy in the early 1990s.  When the plot failed he fled
to Saudi Arabia. He was arrested in the aftermath of the 1996
Khobar Towers bombings, which killed 19 US military personnel
and spent time in prison in the Sa