CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The U.S. launches air strikes targeting this key terrorist in Libya, but there are now conflicting reports about whether he lived or died. Barbara Starr is at the Pentagon, she's following this story for us. Good morning -- Barbara.</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Good morning -- Carol. Just really too soon to say. This was the guy the U.S. was going after, a man named Mokhtar Belmokhtar -- the head of the al Qaeda affiliate in North Africa. They did launch air strikes at a site in Libya where they had intelligence that he was there. But just too soon to get that confirming information from the ground about whether he was actually killed in the air strike. Belmokhtar is somebody the U.S. has wanted very badly as the head of that al Qaeda affiliate in North Africa. He is said to have been behind the 2013 attack on a gas plant in next door Algeria. Several hostages taken and killed in that attack. And then the U.S. in federal court charged him with a number of offenses, including hostage taking, kidnapping, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. It just goes to the seriousness of how badly they wanted him. They've been watching him for a long time. We don't know what intelligence they got but they got some sort of intelligence that he was on the move and he was going to cross the border into Libya and be in this area. They launched the air strikes, still waiting for that confirmation from the ground -- Carol. All right, Barbara Starr reporting live for us from the Pentagon. Thanks so much.</s>STARR: Sure.</s>COSTELLO: Still to come in the newsroom, the mother of the suspect in the Dallas police attacks speaks out. Why she says her son, James Boulware, never got the help he needed.</s>JEANNINE HAMMOND, SHOOTER'S MOTHER: If you've got a really sick loved one out there, you better get them help because it's probably not going to get better, it's going to get worse, and God forbid it should end up like yesterday for my son.
U.S. Airstrike Targets key Terrorist in Libya