&quot;Al-Libi is dead,&quot; White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced at his daily news conference.u00a0 However, he refused to discuss how Libi&#39;s life came to an end, both the circumstances and the location of his death. &quot;I can tell you that our intelligence community has intelligence that leads them believe that al-Qaeda&#39;s number two leader is dead,&quot; Carney said amidst news reports that al-Libi died in a US drone strike in Pakistan. &quot;Removing leaders like al-Libi from the top of al-Qaeda is part of the effort of the Obama Administration to defeat and dismantle the terror network,&quot; Carney said. 49-year-old Libi, considered the most-prominent figure in al-Qaeda after Ayman al-Zawahiri, carried a reward of USD one million on his head. Carney said Al-Libi was very much an operational leader, a general manager of the organization and his absence would be a &quot;job hard to fill&quot; and it is very much possible to find a suitable replacement for him in the near future. &quot;It is a job that is hard to fill. There may not be ... the duration of late that people have held that job... there could be a lot of candidates hoping to fill. So the point is that removing leaders ... from the very top of al-Qaeda is part of an ongoing effort to ultimately disrupt and defeat al Qaeda,&quot; he said. u00a0

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Al-Qaeda's second-in-command Abu Yahya al-Libi has died in a US drone strike, the White House confirmed today, with a top Obama aide terming it as a major blow to the terrorist outfit.

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