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[Stars and Stripes] Iraqis reveal details of successful al-Qaida raid - News - Stripes: On state-run television, Atta displayed photos that showed a partially destroyed mud-brick farmhouse surrounded by high walls and empty fields that was the target of the operation that killed Abu Ayub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. "Al-Masri was physically developing the campaign plans for the timing, the type of targets that they were going to hit.

[Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense] 'Killing' of Qaeda leaders won't end Iraq attacks: analysts: Washington (AFP) April 20, 2010 - Iraqi and US forces killed a regional Al-Qaeda leader on Tuesday, two days after a raid took out the top two commanders of the terror network in Iraq, a US general said. The commander of US forces in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, told Fox News television that the regional leader targeted in the raid had overseen military operations for Al-Qaeda across northern Iraq.

[K-House Weekly eNews] eNews for May 18, 2010: Security precautions have been implemented to protect the sports event from terrorist attacks, but Monday's announcement from Iraq shifted South Africa's security focus. Reportedly an al-Qaida operative in the custody of the Iraqi security forces, Abdullah Azzam Salih Misfar, admitted that a major terrorist attack was planned for the World Cup, and the impetus went all the way up to al Qaida's second highest leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

[Calgary Herald - News] Al-Qaida commanders killed in Iraq: The two leading Al-Qaeda figures in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Baghdadi, were killed in a major operation involving U.S. forces north of the capital Baghdad on April 18, 2010, Maliki said on state television. Photograph by: Iraqi PM Office/Handout, .

[The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories] The Terrorist We Keep Killing - The Daily Beast: The al Qaeda franchise in Iraq has been in retreat for the last four years—ever since its founder Abu Musab al Zarqawi was killed on June 7, 2006 by an American air raid. What is so astonishing is not that al Qaeda in Iraq is now in retreat, but rather how close it came in 2005 and 2006 to pushing Iraq into a civil war and defeating the American intervention in Iraq with very little real popular support in the country and a leadership composed largely of foreigners like Zarqawi, a Jordanian, and al Masri, an Egyptian.

[Cedric's Big Mix] "Iraq snapshot" (The Common Ills): Nor does it seem likely that Allawi's Iraqiya and al-Maliki's State of Law coalitions could easily put their differences aside and share power, despite the fact that al-Maliki recently said the next government should contain significant Sunni representation. Iraqiya politicians believe that al-Maliki orchestrated the move by a government de-Baathification committee to ban some 500 parliamentary candidates -- most of them Sunni and many of them members of Iraqiya -- from running in the election just a few weeks before it took place.

[Investor's Iraq Forum - Iraq Dinar Forum, Iraq Investments, Iraq Stock Exchange, Iraq Bank, Iraq News, Iraqi Dinar] Iraq claims key gains in dismantling Al Qaeda in Iraq: “Al-Masri was physically developing the campaign plans for the timing, the type of targets that they were going to hit. Baghdadi was more the Iraqi face - the political party head of the Islamic State of Iraq/Al-Qaeda in Iraq,” said US .

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Defeating Radical Islam ”” a Lesson from Hercules: The recent killings of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayub al-Masri are all well and good, but without killing the ideology that fuels them, Islamists will continue to morph and multiply.

[InI] InI » URUK Net 21 April, 2010: The Afghan War: “No Blood for Opium ...: Although he left Algeria for the UK in 1999, because he had received threats from the GIA (the Groupe Islamique Armé), he is now a marked man by the government, which convicted him in absentia in a court last November and sentenced him to 20 years in prison for belonging to an “overseas terrorist group.” His lawyers at Reprieve, the London-based legal action charity, explained that no lawyer was appointed to defend him at the trial, and that, despite “repeated requests and extensive investigation,”

[Everyone's Blog Posts - 12160.org] Witness: Secret Iraq prison for women and children - 12160.org: He says at least six women and at least eight children were being held, including the wives of two suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders, Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayub al-Masri. The two women were detained with their children when their .

[mcclatchydc.com: World] Iraqis reveal details of raid that killed militants | McClatchy: On state-run television, Atta displayed photos that showed a partially destroyed mud-brick farmhouse surrounded by high walls and empty fields that was the target of the operation that killed Abu Ayub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. "Al-Masri was physically developing the campaign plans for the timing, the type of targets that they were going to hit.

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Hamas in Iraq: Iran funds al-Qaeda: Salah Al-Din claimed that Al-Qaeda’s real commander [in Iraq] was Abu Ayub Al-Masri, and that [Abu 'Omar] Al-Baghdadi [2] was an Iraqi figure to whom many [words and deeds] are attributed solely to create the impression that [Al-Qaeda is a genuinely] Iraqi organization. He said that [Abu Ayub] Al-Masri had been rescued from arrest by an Arab intelligence apparatus using a diplomatic vehicle belonging to the Iranian Embassy…

[Wizbang] The Consequences of Leaving Iraq Too Soon (Wizbang): I imagine things would stay and only get worse as long as Iraq had troops in LA - because as much as the Crips and the Bloods hate each other, they're both American, and they would probably hate invaders more. It might even be the only thing they agree on - with the rest of LA's citizens agreeing with them.

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