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  • U.S. Says It Killed an al-Qaida Leader

    06/27/2007 3:26:27 PM PDT · by SmithL · 41 replies · 1,067+ views
    The U.S. military announced Wednesday that coalition forces killed a senior al-Qaida leader and his courier, both Turks, in an operation in northern Iraq. Mehmet Yilmaz, also known as Khalid al-Turki, operated a cell that facilitated the movement of foreign fighters into Iraq for al-Qaida operations, U.S. Central Command said in a statement. The courier was identified as Mehmet Resit Isik, also known as Khalil al-Turki, a close associate of Yilmaz and other senior leaders within al-Qaida. The two men were killed in an operation June 23 south of Hawija, which is 150 miles north of Baghdad. Yilmaz was identified...