Iraq: Al Qaeda's Two Top Leaders Abu Ayyub al Masri & Abu Omar al Baghdadi: DEAD (UPDATED Bumped - Yes DEAD)

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Awesome news - we hope.
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Iraq's Prime Minister and the US military confirmed that al Qaeda in Iraq's top two leaders have been killed during a raid in a remote region in the western province of Anbar. "Abu Ayyub al Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al Muhajir, Abu Omar al Baghdadi and a number of al Qaeda leaders in Iraq were killed during a security operation in al Thar Thar region in Anbar," Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki told reporters at a press conference in Baghdad, according to Voices of Iraq.
US Forces Iraq, the US military comamnd in Baghdad, confirmed the report in a press release. [ Rest]

Update: Can't get any hotter than this:

US Forces - Iraq - A series of Iraqi-led joint operations conducted over the last week resulted in the Iraqi Forces, with U.S. support, executing a nighttime raid on the AQI leaders’ safe house. The joint security team identified both AQI members, and the terrorists were killed after engaging the security team. Additionally, Masri’s assistant, along with the son of al-Baghdadi, who were also involved in terrorist activities, were killed.

Without further ado:



Absolutely refuse to take down - yet.
Update II by Howie: From MNF -Iraq

We received your email. To get a copy of the images, you will have to contact the Government of Iraq. I can tell you that DNA testing was done and it was certified that those were indeed the persons killed. That is all that can be said for now. Thank you

So if anyone has a source with the images, please email Howie.
Update III by Stable Hand: Thanks to akhi on a forum we now have the dead as in dead images of both dead dudes, the akhi are stating "it's a photoshop".

By Stable Hand