Cheers!
Posted on 05/03/2007 2:34:39 AM PDT by HAL9000
Excerpt -
BAGHDAD, May 3 (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi forces have killed the head of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, an al Qaeda-led militant group that has claimed many major attacks in the country, Iraq's deputy interior minister said on Thursday.Hussein Kamal said Abu Omar al-Baghdadi had been killed in a battle north of Baghdad. He declined to say when but said authorities had recovered Baghdadi's body.
"Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was killed north of Baghdad by Iraqi and American forces. He died as a result of wounds sustained in clashes. The Interior Ministry has his body to carry out further checks," Kamal told Reuters by telephone.
U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Garver declined to comment but said a news conference would be held later on Thursday to announce the "success" of an operation against Sunni Islamist al Qaeda.
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Cheers!
Do you know of somene called al latif?
Just saw a clip from a U.S. press conference on CNN, where they said they had killed an Al Qaeda leader called Al latif who apparently was “information minister” of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Lots of confusing reports at the moment...
Someone who may be in tight with terrorists. Now there’s a surprise.
Double up, he11 — it’s gang-bang time!
Formatting problem...
U.S. says has no details on death of Qaeda’s Baghdadi
BAGHDAD, May 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Thursday it had no information that Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, a senior al Qaeda leader in Iraq, had been killed in a gunbattle with U.S. and Iraqi forces.
Iraq’s Interior Ministry said earlier that Baghdadi, the leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, a militant al Qaeda-led group, had been killed north of Baghdad. “We have nobody in our possession ... alive or dead who is going through testing at this point,” Major-General William Caldwell, chief spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq, told a news conference, referring to Baghdadi.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03390968.htm
U.S. says kills Qaeda figure linked to Iraq abductions
BAGHDAD, May 3 (Reuters) - U.S. forces have killed a senior figure from al Qaeda in Iraq who was accused of the kidnapping last year of U.S. journalist Jill Carroll and other foreigners, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
U.S. military spokesman Major-General William Caldwell said Muharib Abdul Latif al-Jubouri, the “senior minister of information” for al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed north of Baghdad on Tuesday. “We killed him .. west of Taji on the first day of May,” Caldwell told a news conference, referring to a town north of the capital.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03239212.htm
Cheers.
HF
The last item, about Latif sounds like the Xinhua report for sure.
I believe you mean al Latte.....a democrat that works at a San Fran Starbucks!
Maybe someone should do a parody on the SLIME MAG with all sorts of green stuff on the cover...
Wow, I never thought it would be so soon after the death of Masri. The loss of the top two should be a great blow to Al Qaida of Iraq.
ROTFL :)
Those "Youths" are good at that sort of thing...
The Iraqis better get a handle on these spokesmen who run out and make these claims....pretty soon no one will believe a word they utter.
The Iraqi state-run television confirmed the incident, quoting the Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman, Brigadier Abdul Karim Khalaf, as saying that Muharib Abdullah Latif al-Jubouri was captured by the Iraqi security forces in the town of Dhuluiyah.
See what I mean....its a false claim a month.
al-Baghdadi is not DEAD...hell they don't know Baghdadi really is...
FYI...Masri is not dead....the Iraqis jumped the gun...
Caldwell said al-Baghdadi’s death could not be confirmed. “If that person even exists, again, we have nobody in our possession or know of anybody that does, alive or dead, that is going through any kind of testing or analysis at this point with respect to those two individuals,” he said.
On Tuesday, officials reported that al-Masri, the head of al-Qaida in Iraq, had been killed by rivals north of Baghdad, but the body had not been recovered. Regarding al-Masri, Caldwell said “we in fact do not have in our possession nor do we know of anybody that has anybody or person at this time that we think is him.” “His overall status whether he is dead or alive is actually unknown to us at this point,” he added.
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