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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.