Isis leader in Libya Abu Nabil 'killed by US air strike'.

Isis leader in Libya Abu Nabil 'killed by US air strike'. (Independent).

Nabil is suspected of appearing in an Isis video which showed the brutal beach murders of kidnapped Coptic Christians.

Isis's senior leader in Libya is believed to have been killed by a US air strike. The Pentagon announced that a strike on a compound in Derna is likely to have killed Abu Nabil, also known as Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubayadi.

The operation took place early on 13 November, before the terrorist attacks in Paris later in the day. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said that the strike showed that Isis’s leaders would be targetted “wherever they operate”. He added in a statement released on 14 November: “Nabil’s death will degrade Isil’s ability to meet the group’s objectives in Libya, including recruiting new Isil members, establishing bases in Libya, and planning external attacks on the United States.”

Nabil is believed to be a long-term al-Qaeda militant who was previously operating in Iraq. He is suspected of appearing in an Isis video which showed the brutal beach murders of kidnapped Coptic Christians in February. The film included threats of future attacks on “people of the cross”. Two F-15 fighter jets are understood to have carried out the strikes which killed him. Hmmm......Terrorism expert Max Abrahams has a very interesting theory on the fallout from targeting the terrorist Leadership.Read the full story here.

Holder: Law gives 'clear authority' to kill US citizens overseas.

Holder: Law gives 'clear authority' to kill US citizens overseas.(Fox).CHICAGO -- US Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday gave the Obama administration's most high-profile account to date of its legal rationale for targeting US citizen terrorists abroad.
The administration had barely acknowledged its so-called targeted killing program, which allowed the US to kill Anwar al Awlaki, a New Mexican-born radical Muslim cleric, in a drone strike in Yemen last year.Civil liberties advocates applauded the push toward greater transparency in the controversial policy, but remained skeptical about its bounds and urged the government to release more details about the program for public debate.
In a lengthy speech at Northwestern University Law School in Chicago, Holder said, "It may not always be feasible to capture a United States citizen terrorist who presents an imminent threat of violent attack.""In that case, our government has the clear authority to defend the United States with lethal force," he added.
Though the administration did not make public any formal charges against Awlaki, US intelligence officials believe he was linked to a US army major charged with shooting dead 13 people in Fort Hood, Texas, and to a Nigerian student accused of trying to blow up a US airliner on Dec. 25, 2009.
Holder said Monday he was not permitted to discuss "any particular program or operation" and never mentioned Awlaki by name. He simply stated, "I believe it is important to explain these legal principles publicly."His speech did little to allay the concerns of civil liberty advocates, however, who are urging the administration to make public its legal framework for justifying such killings."Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security," says Holder. "The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process." cbsnews.com
Before the attorney general's speech, snippets of information on the targeted killing program usually entered the public sphere through media reports, usually citing anonymous or low-level officials.
In a rare move, Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon general counsel, defended the targeted killings as a legitimate weapon of war in front of audience of law students last month at Yale University.
The complete rationale is apparently contained in a classified Department of Justice memo. Peter Scheer, of the First Amendment Coalition, is demanding in a lawsuit that the DOJ make public a redacted version of the justification.Scheer told NewsCore that Holder's speech was a "good start in what I hope is a continuing public debate about this murky area of the law," but felt it ultimately left many questions unanswered.Hmmmm......Hi i'm from the U.S. Gov, I'm your accuser, your judge, your jury and your executioner, all in one - what more due process do you want? "Read the full story here.