Top Al Qaeda Leader for Mosul Meets Former Australian Comic Yahoo Serious and Maker, but Mostly Maker

They had trouble activating the suicide belt. Fortunately, American troops -- who are all about the helpin' -- were there to assist him.

Multinational Forces Iraq named Abu Khalaf as al Qaeda's emir, or leader, of Mosul who was killed during a raid by Task Force 88, the hunter-killer teams assigned to disrupt terrorist command networks in Iraq and elsewhere. Khalaf was killed by US forces as he reached for a gun and his associate attempted to detonate his vest.

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Khalaf had close ties to foreign al Qaeda terrorists, according to his associates in custody. "Khalaf traveled much of the time with foreigners," the US military said. Abu Khalud, his aide wearing the suicide vest at the time of his death, was a Syrian national.

The US military has decimated al Qaeda's command network in Mosul since major operations kicked off early this year.

Unfortunately, our troops murdered a civilian woman at the terrorist house as well, who was innocently attempting to detonate the suicide belt on her fallen friend/murder-pimp.

(Sarcasm, she was Al Qaeda too.)

posted by Ace at 04:28 PM

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