Al Qaeda's two top Iraq leaders killed in raid

[SandEagle]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/19/AR2010041901788.html

"Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said al Qaeda's Iraq leader, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the purported head of its local affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq, were found dead in a hole in the ground inside a house after it was surrounded and stormed by troops."



but here's where it get's interesting:

last year they reported that Iraq forces arrested this dude http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article6155579.ece

and three years ago the US military claimed he never existed:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpa...431F93AA25754C0A9619C8B63&sec=&spon=&emc=eta1

"
On Wednesday, the chief United States military spokesman here, Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, provided a new explanation for Mr. Baghdadi's ability to escape attack: he never existed.
General Bergner told reporters that a senior Iraqi insurgent captured this month said that the elusive Mr. Baghdadi was actually a fictional character whose declarations on audiotape were read by a man named Abu Abdullah al-Naima."

 

[Tristicus]

Nice.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

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