[Published: Wednesday April 21 2010]
Third Iraq al-Qaeda leader killed
Baghdad, 21 April-(ANA)-US and Iraqi forces have killed another al-Qaeda leader in northern Iraq, army officials say.
The man identified as Ahmed al-Obeidi was killed in the northern province of Nineveh, Iraqi military spokesman Maj Gen Qassim al-Moussawi said.
The news comes the day after the government announced two leading insurgents had been killed.
Iraqi al-Qaeda leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who led an affiliated group, died on Sunday.
Gen Moussawi said Mr Obeidi, also known by the name Abu Suhaib, was in charge of al-Qaeda in Iraq's operations in the northern provinces of Kirkuk, Salahuddin and Nineveh.
Gen Ray Odierno, commander of US forces in Iraq, said the man was "the military emir" of the region.
"He was the guy in charge of operations from Tikrit all the way up to Mosul out to the Syrian border," he told AFP news agency.(ANA)
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