Thursday, June 15, 2006

Military Clarification

So, there's clarification on the name of the new al-Qaeda leader in Iraq.

The U.S. military said on Thursday it believed the real name of Iraq's new al-Qaeda leader was Abu Ayyub al-Masri.

"We think that Abu Ayyub al-Masri is in fact, probably, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir. They are probably one and the same," Major General William Caldwell, the spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq, told a news conference.

Thanks. I thought they looked like the same person.

In a statement posted on a Web site on Tuesday and signed by Muhajir, al Qaeda vowed to avenge the killing of Zarqawi.


That's nice. In a statement Tuesday evening, the US Military vowed to avenge the naming of a new al-Qaeda leader in Iraq.