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| Iraq |
| Baquba emir killed in raid |
| 2006-06-15 |
| A man the Iraqi army described on Wednesday as a top aide of slain al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed in a raid on the same village where the militant chief was bombed to death last week. Ezzat Ahmed Salman, also known as Ezz al-Arab or the Pride of the Arabs, was the head of Zarqawi's group for the Baquba region, north of Baghdad. He was killed late Tuesday in clashes with Iraqi soldiers in Hibhib where the Al-Qaeda leader himself was slain. "The Iraqi army raided his hideout in the village at around 9pm. Clashes lasted for five hours, during which he was killed along with another person," said a security official. He said security forces found fake IDs of Salman posing as a police officer in the house which was raided. Salman was in charge of organising militant attacks for Zarqawi's group in and around Baquba, he added. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 the Pride of the Arabs gets humble raisins huummm dropping like flies they are..nyuck nyuck nyuck nyuck... |
| Posted by: RD 2006-06-15 00:49 |