After al-Zarqawi was toe tagged, al-Masri and al-Baghdadi were the leading candidates to replace him.
Although, as leader of the Shura Council, al-Baghdadi could technically be considered Zarqawi’s boss.
Basically it’s the two highest leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq dead in the past few days.
...but Harry Reid says the war is still lost.
I have to wonder if the events are somehow connected. It is possible that al-Baghdadi was located through intel obtained at the site of the al-Masri hit.