Abu Ayyub al-Masri
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Al-Qaeda’s Masri Killed in Iraq
Al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who is also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, has been killed today in the shootout of militants in Baghdad, Reuters reported with reference to Interior Ministry but without giving specifies.
“We have definite intelligence reports that al-Masri was killed today,” Brigadier-General Abdul Kareem Khalaf told Reuters.
The terror career of Masri started far back in 1982, when he joined the radical Islam Jihad movement. Then, he was trained in Afghanistan focusing on explosions arrangement. His long-time assignment was transferring militants from Syria to Baghdad.
Masri, whose name could be translated as the Egyptian, took over Iraq’s al-Qaeda after Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in June 2006. The United States offered the $5 million bounty for his head.
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