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Baghdad, 27 June (AKI) - The right hand man of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is thought to have died in the same US aid raid, on the town of al-Qaim near the Syrian border, in which the wanted Saudi Abdullah Rushud lost his life. Abu al-Ghadiya al-Suri's death was reported by the Arab newspaper Al-Hayat, which cited a source close to al-Qaeda as confirming that al-Suri was killed several days ago, around the time Rushud's death was announced in a statement attributed to al-Zarqawi. In an interview with Al-Hayat, Islamic terrorism expert Marwan Shahada, said only Rushud's death was...

Dubai, 27 June (AKI) - An influential Saudi al-Qaeda leader, Abdullah Muhammad Rashid Al-Rushud, reported killed recently in Iraq, travelled there after serious split within the al-Qaeda leadership, a recent statement posted on Internet Islamist forums suggests. It provides detailed argument regarding divisions within the leadership of terror network which, it argues, were behind al-Rushud's decision to goto Iraq. Last week, a message signed by the Jordanian militant, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, announced the death of al-Rushud, one of Saudi Arabia's 26 most wanted suspects, at al-Qaim. "Important truths about Sheikh Abdullah al-Rushud on the Arab peninsula with the mujahadeen" is...