A Libyan Islamist whose fabricated testimony about Al Qaeda was used by the United States to justify its 2003 invasion of Iraq has killed himself in his Libyan jail cell, a Libyan newspaper reported on Monday.Ali Muhammad Abdelaziz Al Fakhiri, aka Ibn Al Sheikh Al-Libi, "was found dead after he committed suicide," Oed newspaper reported on its website, adding Libyan authorities were investigating.
"He may even have been found dead before committing suicide."
"What were his last words before he committed suicide?"
"Don't shoot!"
Captured by US-led forces in Pakistan in the weeks after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Al Fakhiri later made up a story about links between Al Qaeda and Iraq to avoid torture while in the custody of a third country, according to a 2006 US Senate Intelligence Committee report.