Darn! How will the Left spin this? They are having a lot of trouble explaining how the many successes that have been been coming from Iraq...
FOXNews.com - U.S. Says It Killed Al Qaeda Mastermind of Golden Dome Mosque Bombing; 13 Killed in Baghdad Blast - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe N: "U.S. troops killed the Al Qaeda in Iraq mastermind of the bombing that destroyed the golden dome of a famed sacred Shiite shrine last year and set in motion an unrelenting cycle of sectarian bloodletting, the military said Sunday.
Haitham Sabah Shaker Mohammed al-Badri, the group's Salahuddin province emir, was killed in a U.S. operation east of Samarra on Thursday, the military said He also was responsible for the June 13 bombing that toppled the Askariya shrine's twin minarets, it said.
Rear Adm. Mark Fox, a U.S. military spokesman, said al-Badri had been among insurgents spotted by U.S. aircraft moving into 'tactical fighting positions.'
'From the surveillance that was going on, it looked like they were setting up an ambush,' he told reporters in the heavily guarded Green Zone. 'So they brought in rotary wing and close air support and there was some strafing that occurred from helicopters.'
'Al-Badri's body was positively identified by close associates and family members,' Fox said."
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