Posted on 05/09/2008 2:23:02 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
BAGHDAD, May 9 (Reuters) - A man seized by Iraqi forces in the northern city of Mosul is not Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, a senior U.S. military official said on Friday.
"He has not been detained," the official told Reuters, without giving further details.
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“No Abu Ayyub al-Masri, we don’t want you captured, we want you dead.”
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