Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Unconfirmed Reports

At CNN there are unconfirmed reports that Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the Al Qaeda leader in Iraq has been killed in fighting between rival militant groups.

"We received intelligence reports of al-Masri getting killed in clashes between al-Qaeda in Iraq and other militant groups, at dawn today, in al-Niba'ie in Taji, north of Baghdad," Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Khalaf said.

According to Khalaf, the reports are based on "very strong intelligence," but he added al-Masri's body has not been seen and stressed that the reported battle was an internal fight between rival militant groups -- no Iraqi troops were involved.

If the vermin have turned on each other so much the better. However, similar reports in the past have, unfortunatley, turned out to be false. Let's wait and see.

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