More:Iraq Slogger: "CNN cites an Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman as reporting that Iraqi police encountered an insurgent group on the road between Falluja and Samarra and, in a firefight, wounded Abu Ayyub al-Masri and killed Abu Abdullah al-Majamiai."
More: AP (Washington Post) has MOI spokesman and Iraqi Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf confirming that al-Masri was wounded and al-Majamiai killed but adds that "Deputy Interior Minister Maj. Gen. Hussein Ali Kamal said he had no information about such a clash or that al-Masri had been involved." The US military has not commented.
Update: PJM's Richard Miniter breaks the bad news. But do give the link a click. Miniter has some news on al-Qaeda/Islamic State of Iraq's new tactics. Posted
5:09 PM
by Robert
