The US military says it has killed the second-in-command of al Qaeda in Iraq.
Officials identified the militant as Abu Qaswarah this week after he was killed in a raid in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on October 5. A US military spokesman said Abu Qaswarah, a native of Morocco, had trained with al Qaeda in Afghanistan and been in contact with insurgent leaders in Pakistan. He allegedly oversaw foreign militants in northern Iraq and had ties with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a senior al Qaeda leader, who was killed in a US air strike in June 2006.
(Deutsche Welle)
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