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Al-Qaeda leader Abu Islam killed in US airstrike
 US forces killed an activist of Al-Qaeda in Iraq during an air raid on the city of Al-Karbala near al-Qaem on the Iraqi-Syrian borders, a statement by the Multi-National Forces (MNF) said on Tuesday The statement added that the air raid killed an Al-Qaeda activist in Iraq known as Abu Islam, in addition to a number of his comrades. According to intelligence information the MNF believed that Abu Islam and his fighters were killed in the raid, the statement added. Residents and eyewitnesses said scores of armed men sheltering in hideouts in Karbala were killed in an air raid launched today at dawn.Posted by: Dan Darling 2005-08-31 |
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