Belmoktar is alive: Islamists

DUBAI – Algerian al-Qaida commander Moktar Belmoktar, reported killed by Chadian troops, is alive, a monitoring service that tracks online militant forums reported a contributor as saying on Sunday.
Chad’s military chief announced late Saturday that his troops deployed in northern Mali had killed Moktar Belmoktar, the terrorist who orchestrated the attack on a natural gas plant in Algeria that left 36 foreigners dead.
An unidentified participant in militant website discussions said in a message posted on several forums that Belmoktar was “alive and well and leading the battles himself,” the U.S.-based SITE service reported.
The message said Belmoktar would soon issue a message confirming the news, SITE reported.         Monday, 04 March 2013 00:10