U.S. says has no details on death of Qaeda's Baghdadi

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Thursday it had no information that Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, a senior al Qaeda leader in Iraq, had been killed in a gunbattle with U.S. and Iraqi forces.

Iraq's Interior Ministry said earlier that Baghdadi, the leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, a militant al Qaeda-led group, had been killed north of Baghdad.

"We have nobody in our possession ... alive or dead who is going through testing at this point," Major-General William Caldwell, chief spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq, told a news conference, referring to Baghdadi


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070503/ts_nm/iraq_qaeda_usa_dc_1

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here we go again :eyes:

some earlier links:

Body said to be Iraqi Qaeda leader shown on TV
BAGHDAD, May 3 (Reuters) - Iraqi state television broadcast images on Thursday of the body of a man it identified as Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, a senior al Qaeda leader in Iraq.

The Interior Ministry had earlier said Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq, had been killed in a gunbattle near Baghdad.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03463051.htm

No proof yet that Al-Qaeda's Iraq chief dead
by Ammar Karim
Wed May 2, 1:18 PM ET

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The Iraqi government and tribal allies scoured dangerous insurgent territory on Wednesday but found no proof of claims that Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq had been killed in a clash between armed factions.

Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf, the interior ministry's operations director, admitted Iraq has still not found any body or human remains to back up intelligence reports that Abu Ayyub al-Masri is dead.

"So far we don't have it, but there are efforts underway to look for the body," said Khalaf, whose claim on Tuesday that Masri had been killed was scorned by Al-Qaeda and treated with caution by Iraq's US allies.

A coalition of Sunni tribes that has vowed to defeat Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for Masri's alleged death, saying they tracked him to an area just north of Baghdad and killed him in a dawn ambush on Tuesday.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070502/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_070502171851

[pinniped]

1. Finally, a real al Qaeda-led group, not an al Qaeda-linked group.

Is this guy part of the BS benchmark program?

[maddezmom]

2. U.S. says leading al Qaeda figure killed in Iraq, not Masri or Baghdadi

BAGHDAD, May 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Thursday it had killed a senior al Qaeda official in Iraq who it accused of involvement in the kidnapping of Americans Jill Carroll and Tom Fox and other foreigners.

But the military said it had no information to support claims by Iraq's Interior Ministry that Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, another senior al Qaeda figure in Iraq, had been killed.

Chief military spokesman Major-General William Caldwell identified Muharib Abdul Latif al-Jubouri, the "senior minister of information" for al Qaeda in Iraq, as a key figure in the separate abductions of Carroll and Fox.

We killed him ... west of Taji on the first day of May," Caldwell told a news conference, referring to a town north of the capital Baghdad.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03371351.htm

[Eugene]

3. I'm confused. Petraeus called this #3 guy "public enemy number one."

Before that Mehdi Army was supposedly the biggest threat in Iraq.
What about al Masri and the mythical al Baghdadi?

:crazy:

[Eugene]

4. (Friday) US ID's 2 More Qaida Figures

Source: Associated Press

US ID's 2 More Qaida Figures

Friday May 4, 2007 12:01 PM

BAGHDAD (AP) - The U.S. military on Friday identified two more top
al-Qaida aides killed during an operation earlier this week targeting
a senior propagandist for the terror network.

The announcement came a day after the military said U.S.-led
forces killed al-Qaida propagandist Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jubouri
early Tuesday west of Taji, near an air base 12 miles north of
Baghdad.

Al-Jubouri was one of five militants killed in the operation, but he
was not identified until Wednesday after DNA testing.

The military on Friday identified two of the other slain militants as
al-Jubouri's spiritual guide Sabah Hilal al-Shihawi, also known as
Sabah al-Alwani and Abu Nuri; and a foreign fighter Abu Ammar
al-Masri, who is said was helping with insurgent activity and
infrastructure support for al-Qaida.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6607808,00.html

[maddezmom]

5. so they got them all?

I guess the violence will be ending now :sarcasm: