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Senior al Qaeda leader killed in Iraq -- ministry (Abu Omar al-Baghdadi)
Reuters (excerpt) ^ | Mussab Al-Khairalla and Aseel Kami

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abuomaralbaghdadi; albaghdadi; almasri; alqaeda; alqaida; iraq; islam; muhammadsminions; spartansixdelta
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath
Even the goats and sheep are starting to get nervous.

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Cheers!

41 posted on 05/03/2007 5:20:09 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Dog

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...


42 posted on 05/03/2007 5:21:34 AM PDT by Eurotwit (WI - CSC)
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To: bert

Someone who may be in tight with terrorists. Now there’s a surprise.


43 posted on 05/03/2007 5:22:59 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: gridlock

Double up, he11 — it’s gang-bang time!


44 posted on 05/03/2007 5:23:38 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: HAL9000
Can we hang his body off a bridge and burn his legs off?
45 posted on 05/03/2007 5:26:49 AM PDT by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: All
alright some news: 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.
46 posted on 05/03/2007 5:31:58 AM PDT by Eurotwit (WI - CSC)
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To: All

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.


47 posted on 05/03/2007 5:33:42 AM PDT by Eurotwit (WI - CSC)
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To: HAL9000
...and both those guys had aides,...er, uh, lots of 'em.

HF

48 posted on 05/03/2007 5:34:46 AM PDT by holden
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To: Eurotwit; Dog

The last item, about Latif sounds like the Xinhua report for sure.


49 posted on 05/03/2007 5:35:38 AM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: Eurotwit

I believe you mean al Latte.....a democrat that works at a San Fran Starbucks!


50 posted on 05/03/2007 5:37:27 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (We need a troop surge in New Orleans and Philly!)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Bad news for Time Mag, who took President Bush off the World's most influential list...

Maybe someone should do a parody on the SLIME MAG with all sorts of green stuff on the cover...

51 posted on 05/03/2007 5:38:06 AM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: HAL9000
Excellent news. I hope that the US military will confirm it and also will confirm the death of the other terrorist leader Al Masri.
52 posted on 05/03/2007 5:39:30 AM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: Straight Vermonter

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.


53 posted on 05/03/2007 5:42:18 AM PDT by Wiz
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath

ROTFL :)


54 posted on 05/03/2007 5:46:12 AM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: expatpat
Double up, he11 — it’s gang-bang time!

Those "Youths" are good at that sort of thing...

55 posted on 05/03/2007 5:51:29 AM PDT by gridlock (Enough already about Virginia Tech!)
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To: Straight Vermonter
By the way, have you read this yet?

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi's Hidden Identity
56 posted on 05/03/2007 5:51:50 AM PDT by Wiz
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To: Cap Huff; Eurotwit
There is why they are confused..

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.

57 posted on 05/03/2007 6:02:34 AM PDT by Dog (Hey Ahmadinejad... Is that an IED in your pants or were you just glad to see her?)
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To: Cap Huff
This is from an old article in March...the Iraqi's claimed they captured the SAME GUY.

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.

58 posted on 05/03/2007 6:06:42 AM PDT by Dog (Hey Ahmadinejad... Is that an IED in your pants or were you just glad to see her?)
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To: Cap Huff; Straight Vermonter; Eurotwit
This will end all the confusion...PLEASE READ!!!

al-Baghdadi is not DEAD...hell they don't know Baghdadi really is...

FYI...Masri is not dead....the Iraqis jumped the gun...

59 posted on 05/03/2007 6:13:36 AM PDT by Dog (Hey Ahmadinejad... Is that an IED in your pants or were you just glad to see her?)
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To: All

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.


60 posted on 05/03/2007 6:16:13 AM PDT by Dog (Hey Ahmadinejad... Is that an IED in your pants or were you just glad to see her?)
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