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Al-Qaida kingpins in Iraq killed amid continuing impasse over elections

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Excerpted from “Al-Qaida kingpins in Iraq killed amid continuing impasse over elections; US vice-president, Joe Biden, hails deaths as potentially 'devastating' blow against terrorist organisation” By Ian Black, guardian.co.uk, Monday 19 April 2010 19.54 BST
[SIZE="+2"]A[/SIZE]l-Qaida's two most senior leaders in Iraq have been hunted down and killed, it was announced on Monday, a development hailed by US vice president Joe Biden as a potentially "devastating" blow to the terrorist organisation.

Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, said an intelligence team backed by US forces had killed Abu Ayyoub al-Masri, al-Qaida's leader in the country, and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the purported head of its affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq. The two died on Sunday in a rocket attack on a home where they were hiding near Tikrit in the northern province of Salahuddin. …
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Hurray for our side!
 
What is this.. the 2361436 "king pin" that is killed? Not a big "WOOT" moment as it use to be. There is already a new ones in these guys place.
 
PeteEU said:
What is this.. the 2361436 "king pin" that is killed? Not a big "WOOT" moment as it use to be. There is already a new ones in these guys place.
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They should use more and more elaborate methods of killing people if they want to keep making headlines. Maybe drop a crate full of poisonous snakes on them next time? After that, artificial tornado.
 
Well, there are definite kingpins that need to die. These people, as a whole, are pretty frickin' dumb. Without the ones in charge, they may accidentally blow up a McDonalds or something.
 
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