{"id":3488,"date":"2007-09-29T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/another-alqaeda-leader-killed.html"},"modified":"2007-09-29T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T09:29:00","slug":"another-alqaeda-leader-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/another-alqaeda-leader-killed.html","title":{"rendered":"Another al-Qaeda leader killed in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7019009.stm\">Our military got another one<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A senior leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed in a US air strike near Baghdad on Tuesday, the US military reports.<br \/>\nGen Joseph Anderson said the death of Abu Osama al-Tunisi, who had led a group of foreign militants in Iraq, was a major blow to the organisation.<br \/>\nThe US general accused him of leading a cell responsible for kidnapping and killing three US soldiers in June 2006.<br \/>\nThe group is linked to some of the bloodiest insurgent attacks in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion.<br \/>\nIt was led by the Jordanian militant, Abu Musab a-Zarqawi, until he was killed by a US air strike in June 2006.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\n&#8220;His presence was confirmed by one of the two detainees from the operation, one who left the target area just prior to the air strike, who we eventually captured minutes later,&#8221; the chief of staff of Multi-National Corps Iraq said.<br \/>\nUS ground forces later recovered a handwritten note believed to have been written by Tunisi at the site, Gen Anderson added.<br \/>\n&#8220;His presence was confirmed by one of the two detainees from the operation, one who left the target area just prior to the air strike, who we eventually captured minutes later,&#8221; the chief of staff of Multi-National Corps Iraq said.<br \/>\nUS ground forces later recovered a handwritten note believed to have been written by Tunisi at the site, Gen Anderson added.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our military got another one! 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