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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (24825)2/15/2007 11:50:09 PM
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Leader of Al-Qaida in Iraq Wounded

By Michael Goldfarb
WorldwideStandard.com

From the AP:

<<< The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was wounded and an aide was killed in a clash Thursday with Iraqi forces north of Baghdad, the Interior Ministry spokesman said.

The clash occurred near Balad, a major U.S. base about 50 miles north of the capital, Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf said.

Khalaf said al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri was wounded and his aide, identified as Abu Abdullah al-Majemaai, was killed. >>>

Last week, after five helicopters went down in just 18 days, there was a great deal of speculation as to whether this was just a run of bad luck or evidence of a tactical shift by insurgents. There was one other theory, which Bill Roggio hinted at here:

<<< In the past, al-Qaeda was largely limited to deploying anti-aircraft missiles to protect command and leadership assets. MANPADs were in view in Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's last video before his death. When U.S. forces were hunting Zarqawi in Yusifiyah, several helicopters were brought down during the battles. >>>

Roggio also told me that the recent crashes might be related to a renewed effort to kill al Qaeda leadership figures. Sure enough, al-Masri was wounded just north of Baghdad, where most of the American helicopters had gone down. And while the report comes from Iraqi officials, I expect that it was American forces that carried out the attack. And likely from the air.

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