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Odierno Reports "Al Quaeda in Iraq is 'Broken'"
Iraqi and US forces have hit al Qaeda in Iraq hard over the last several months, crippling the terror group's senior leadership and disrupting its communications with al Qaeda's top leaders in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the top US commander in the country said."Over the last 90 days or so, we've either picked up or killed 34 out of the top 42 al Qaeda in Iraq leaders," General Ray Odierno, the commander of US Forces - Iraq, told reporters during a Pentagon press briefing. Odierno said it isn't clear if the new al Qaeda in Iraq leaders (replacements named for the above 34) are real people or merely placeholders . "They've named some names, but we're not even sure if there's actually people behind those names," he said. "We call those names roughly honorific names. They're names that are very common names in the Arabic world. So we're not sure there's actually people behind those names yet." Posted by: Glenmore 2010-06-05 |
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