{"id":232,"date":"2010-04-25T15:39:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T15:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=232"},"modified":"2010-04-25T15:39:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T15:39:57","slug":"al-qaeda-admits-commanders-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/04\/25\/232\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda admits commanders&#8217; deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"maleki-baghdadi\" src=\"images\/stories\/akhbar\/maleki-baghdadi.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"217\" \/>Al-Qaeda in Iraq has confirmed the deaths of two senior commanders, a week after US and Iraqi authorities announced they had been killed, according to an intelligence-monitoring agency.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abu Ayub al-Masri, head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the purported head of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), an al-Qaeda affiliate, were reportedly killed in a joint raid by US and Iraqi soldiers on April 18.<br \/>SITE, the intelligence-monitoring service, said on Saturday the Islamic State of Iraq, had confirmed the deaths of the two men in a statement on Islamist internet forums.<br \/>&#8220;The ISI shariah minister, Abu al-Walid Abd al-Wahhab al-Mashadani, informed that both leaders were attending a meeting when enemy forces engaged with them in battle and launched an air strike on their location,&#8221; SITE said.<br \/>Al-Mashadani was quoted as saying: &#8220;If Allah fated that the two sheikhs be killed at this particular time, know that they left a unique generation behind, one that was raised before their eyes.&#8221;<br \/>Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, announced last week the two deaths, saying that a major threat to the country&#8217;s security had been removed.<br \/>Al-Masri and al-Baghdadi were found dead in a basement hole after their safe house was hit by a missile and stormed by Iraqi and US troops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Line of leaders?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Al-Maliki said that al-Baghdadi and al-Masri were killed in a raid on a safehouse as part of a major operation in which evidence was found that had foiled future attacks.<br \/>Forensic tests had confirmed their identities.<br \/>General Ray Odierno, the US forces commander in Iraq, said in a statement that the killings were &#8220;potentially the most significant blow to al-Qaeda in Iraq since the beginning of the insurgency&#8221;.<br \/>It is believed that the killings of al-Baghdadi and al-Masri sparked a series of apparent reprisal bombings, including one that killed at least 56 people in Shia Muslim areas of Baghdad on Friday.<br \/>Al-Qaeda&#8217;s statement condemned the operation that killed the two commanders, and claimed that it came after several ISI successful attacks.<br \/>&#8220;The &#8216;Crusaders&#8217; 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