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Top two Al-Qaeda in Iraq chiefs killed: Iraqi PM
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on state television on Monday that two leading Al-Qaeda figures in Iraq had been killed north of the capital Baghdad.
Updated on: Apr 19, 2010, 19:25:04 IST
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on state television on Monday that two leading Al-Qaeda figures in Iraq had been killed north of the capital Baghdad.
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayub al-Masri were killed in Salaheddin province by Iraqi intelligence agents who had been given US assistance, Maliki said, showing pictures of both men before and after their deaths.
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