Chicokid
September 28, 2005, 10:26 AM
Al-Qaida's second-in-command in Iraq has been shot and killed by US-led forces in Baghdad, the US military says.
Abu Azzam, a financier and religious aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, believed to be of Palestinian origin, was shot and killed on Sunday when US and Iraqi forces raided a house in Baghdad on the basis of information provided by an Iraqi citizen, Iraq's National Security Adviser Muwaffaq al-Rubaei said.
"We had a tip from an Iraqi citizen that led us to him," said Lieutenant-Colonel Steve Boylan, a spokesman for the US military in Iraq.
"It was a joint US-Iraqi operation. We've been tracking him for a while," he said on Tuesday.
General Wafiq al-Samaraei, Iraq's presidential adviser on national security affairs, told Aljazeera: "Another person called Abu Nasir, the second man in al-Qaida's organisation in western Iraq, and 28 others were also killed on Monday in an air strike targeting an area near al-Qaim city."
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Abu Azzam, a financier and religious aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, believed to be of Palestinian origin, was shot and killed on Sunday when US and Iraqi forces raided a house in Baghdad on the basis of information provided by an Iraqi citizen, Iraq's National Security Adviser Muwaffaq al-Rubaei said.
"We had a tip from an Iraqi citizen that led us to him," said Lieutenant-Colonel Steve Boylan, a spokesman for the US military in Iraq.
"It was a joint US-Iraqi operation. We've been tracking him for a while," he said on Tuesday.
General Wafiq al-Samaraei, Iraq's presidential adviser on national security affairs, told Aljazeera: "Another person called Abu Nasir, the second man in al-Qaida's organisation in western Iraq, and 28 others were also killed on Monday in an air strike targeting an area near al-Qaim city."
Click HERE (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F9AE7757-522E-4DBC-BC6A-E70CA2A0420E.htm) for more info on this story.