Deaths of senior al-Qaida pair confirmed

An al-Qaida front group in Iraq declared in a statement posted on the internet today that its two top figures have been killed.

Deaths of senior al-Qaida pair confirmed

An al-Qaida front group in Iraq declared in a statement posted on the internet today that its two top figures have been killed.

The statement by the Islamic State of Iraq provided the first confirmation from the terror network of the April 19 claim by the Iraqi and US governments that the two men were killed in a joint operation while hiding at a safe house near the city of Tikrit, north of Baghdad.

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