Al-Qaeda In Iraq Leader Killed
Abu Usama al-Tunisi was killed in an airstrike Tuesday. Fox News was reporting today that the AQI leader wrote a S.O.S. letter shortly before the airstrike, which was recovered later on an AQ member fleeing the scene. That has to make you feel warm & fuzzy inside.
U.S.-led forces have killed one of the most important leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq, a Tunisian believed connected to the kidnapping and killings last summer of American soldiers, a top commander said Friday.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson said the death of the suspected terrorist in a U.S. airstrike Tuesday south of Baghdad, and recent similar operations against al-Qaida, have left the organization in Iraq fractured.
"Abu Usama al-Tunisi was one of the most senior leaders ... the emir of foreign terrorists in Iraq and part of the inner leadership circle," Anderson said.
Al-Tunisi was a leader in helping bring foreign terrorists into the country and his death "is a key loss" to al-Qaida leadership there, Anderson told a Pentagon news conference.
