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Posted on 09/25/2006 8:14:26 AM PDT by xtinct
BAGHDAD -- British troops in Iraq said on Monday they had killed a senior al Qaeda figure who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan in 2005.
Omar Faruq was shot dead while resisting arrest during a pre-dawn raid by about 200 British troops in Iraq's second biggest city, Basra, British military spokesman Major Charlie Burbridge said.
Burbridge called him a "very, very significant man", although he was believed to be hiding inside Iraq, not necessarily operating there.
"The individual had been tracked across Iraq and was in hiding in Basra," Burbridge said.
"Two companies (about 200 troops) launched the operation in the early hours of this morning. The troops returned to base without any multinational force casualties."
Faruq, a Kuwaiti citizen who was captured in Indonesia in June, 2002, was described by Washington as the most senior al Qaeda figure in southeast Asia, a key link between Osama bin Laden's followers and Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiah militants.
Whack-a-Mole. SPLAT.
Yeah!
Good job!
He's one dead Fuqar.
Another one bites the dust!
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