Thursday, May 03, 2007

Top al-Qaeda In Iraq Spokesman Confirmed Killed, No Word Yet If Leader Is Dead Or Alive

Top al-Qaeda In Iraq Spokesman Confirmed Killed,
No Word Yet If Leader Is Dead Or Alive

The U.S. Military said it had killed a top al-Qaeda operative in Iraq whom it accused of involvement in the kidnapping of American journalist Jill Carroll, peace activist Tom Fox and other foreigners... US military spokesman Major-General William Caldwell said Muharib Abdul Latif al-Jubouri was the “senior minister of information” for al-Qaeda in Iraq...
Read the rest at The Australian News website

The International Herald Tribune website has this short report by AP that starts off like this... The Islamic State of Iraq on Thursday confirmed in an Internet statement that its official spokesman has been killed but denied the killing of its leader, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi...
Read the rest below...
Al-Qaida group in Iraq confirms death of spokesman, but says leader alive

More to come...
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