Regis Philbin
Feb 15th, 2007, 07:09 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/15/iraq.main/index.html
Iraqi terror leader reported wounded
POSTED: 6:39 p.m. EST, February 15, 2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been wounded and his top aide killed in a clash with police, an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN Thursday.
Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Khalaf said Iraqi police got into a firefight with insurgents on the road between Falluja, west of Baghdad, and Samarra, north of Baghdad, and wounded Abu Ayyub al-Masri.
Abu Abdullah al-Majamiai, al-Masri's top aide, was killed, he said.
The group was trying to enter the town of Balad, Khalaf said.
Khalaf said Iraqi police have the body of al-Majamiai.
CNN could not independently confirm the report and CNN's Michael Ware in Baghdad said Iraqi officials would not say whether al-Masri was in custody.
The U.S. military -- who wrongly reported last October that al-Masri had been killed -- referred reporters to the Iraqi government.
Iraqi terror leader reported wounded
POSTED: 6:39 p.m. EST, February 15, 2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been wounded and his top aide killed in a clash with police, an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN Thursday.
Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Khalaf said Iraqi police got into a firefight with insurgents on the road between Falluja, west of Baghdad, and Samarra, north of Baghdad, and wounded Abu Ayyub al-Masri.
Abu Abdullah al-Majamiai, al-Masri's top aide, was killed, he said.
The group was trying to enter the town of Balad, Khalaf said.
Khalaf said Iraqi police have the body of al-Majamiai.
CNN could not independently confirm the report and CNN's Michael Ware in Baghdad said Iraqi officials would not say whether al-Masri was in custody.
The U.S. military -- who wrongly reported last October that al-Masri had been killed -- referred reporters to the Iraqi government.