Libya says 'uncatchable' veteran militant killed in U.S. strike

By Ahmed Elumami and Peter Cooney TRIPOLI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A veteran Islamist militant blamed for a deadly attack on an Algerian gas field and who ran smuggling routes across North Africa has been killed in a U.S. air strike inside Libya, Libya's government said on Sunday. The recognized government said the strike had killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an Algerian militant who became a major figure in insurgencies across North Africa and the Saharan border region and was dubbed "The Unca