Al Qaeda denies reports of militant commander Belmokhtar's death

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(Refiles to complete broken sentence in paragraph 4) CAIRO, June 19 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's **rth Africa branch has denied reports that Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a major figure in insurgencies across **rth Africa and the Saharan border region, was killed in a U.S. air strike in Libya. SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors radical Islamist organizations in the media, cited a statement from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb posted on Twitter declaring that Belmokhtar, also k**wn as Khalid Abu al-Abbas, is alive.

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