Al Qaeda in Iraq leader killed: Interior Ministry
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The leader of al Qaeda in
Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was killed on Tuesday in an internal fight between insurgents north of Baghdad, the Interior Ministry spokesman said.
Brigadier-General Abdul Kareem Khalaf told Reuters “we have definite intelligence reports that al Masri was killed today.”
Another source in the ministry also said Masri had been killed. Khalaf said the battle happened near a bridge in the small town of al-Nibayi, north of Baghdad.
Both Khalaf and the other source in the ministry said the authorities did not have Masri’s body.
The U.S. military said it could not confirm the reports.
“I hope that it is true, but we want to be very careful to make sure,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Garver, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq.
Source: news.yahoo.com
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