Al Qaida's #2 Vows Revenge

In video released today, Zawahri has vowed to revenge the death of Abu Laith al-Libi. Al-Libi was killed last month by a HellFire missile fired from a predator drone. Now the US might lose the ability to conduct predator drone missions inside Pakistan. That is clearly not the best option.

Al-Qaida's number two leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, has vowed to avenge the killing of a top al-Qaida commander in Pakistan last month.

Zawahri made the threat in a new video released Wednesday on the Internet. In the video, he pays tribute to Abu Laith al-Libi, who was believed to be the terror network's third-most important figure after Osama bin Laden and Zawahri himself.

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The Libyan-born Libi was killed in what Pakistani intelligence officials say was a U.S. missile strike in Pakistan's North Wazaristan tribal region in late January.

Zawahri says in the video that no al-Qaida chief has died a natural death and no al-Qaida blood has been spilled without a response. He did not elaborate.

U.S. officials say Libi planned a suicide bombing at the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan in February 2007 during a visit by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. The attack killed 23 people.