Posted on 05/01/2007 1:31:19 AM PDT by Eurotwit
Edited on 05/01/2007 2:12:25 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been killed, Iraq's Interior Ministry says. Abbu Ayyub al Masri was killed in an "internal battle", the ministry said. More follows .
Terror Chief 'Killed In Internal Battle'
Updated: 09:59, Tuesday May 01, 2007
The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been killed, Iraq's Interior Ministry has said.
Abbu Ayyub al Masri was killed in an "internal battle", according to the ministry.
However, there is no independent confirmation of the report.
Brigadier-General Abdul Kareem Khalaf told the Reuters news agency: "We have definite intelligence reports that al Masri was killed today."
Another source in the ministry also said al Masri had been killed, Reuters said.
The US military has not confirmed the reports - but it has a $5m bounty on the terror chief's head.
There has been increasing friction between Sunni Islamist al Qaeda and other Sunni Arab insurgent groups in Iraq.
Local groups are said to be angered over al Qaeda's indiscriminate killing of Iraqi civilians.
Al Masri, an Egyptian, assumed the leadership of al Qaeda in Iraq after Jordanian militant Abu Musab al Zarqawi was killed in a US air strike in June 2006.
The US military has described al Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al Muhajir, as a close al Zarqawi associate.
UPDATE:
http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2007/05/01/afx3671099.html
“Iraq probes reports that Al-Qaeda chief al-Masri killed”
05.01.07, 6:06 AM ET
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BAGHDAD (Thomson Financial) - Iraqi authorities are investigating reports that the alleged leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been killed in a struggle within his own group, the interior ministry said.
‘There is intelligence information. Some information, you know, needs confirmations, but this information is very strong,’ interior ministry operations director Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf said.””
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Dingy Harry wept.
ShaaaZammmmmn!
so the piece of scum finally got the got from the big admin in the sky, eh?
Harry must be crying.
I'm waiting for that before I celebrate.
The MoI...well..let's just say we've had reports like this before and they turned out to be false.
I'm hoping like heck it's true, though.
Oh dear, strike that one off as one of the people who Nancy Pelosi planned to visit off the list.
“let’s just say we’ve had reports like this before and they turned out to be false.
I’m hoping like heck it’s true, though.”
Ditto, ditto.
It’s a good job, if you can get it. The retirement package SUCKS though...
Thank you for the link SeaBiscuit.
What timing.
The leader of al-Qa'ida in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, seen here in an October 2006 video, has reportedly been killed in an internal insurgent fight north of Baghdad. Picture: AFP
Well I guess Time mag can’t make him ‘MAn of the Year” now that he is DOA.
Bears repeating!
The Democrat leader in Iraq is dead? The Democrat leaders in the U.S. will be mourning this day! Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, et al will be wearing black today. Their counterpart in Iraq is dead.
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