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Good shooting, guys.

Senior Al Qaeda in Iraq Leader Killed by U.S. Forces

U.S.-led forces have killed one of the most important leaders of Al Qaeda 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 terrorist in a U.S. airstrike Tuesday south of Baghdad, and recent similar operations against Al Qaeda, 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 Qaeda leadership there, Anderson told a Pentagon news conference.

“He operated in Yusufiyah, southwest of Baghdad, since the second battle of Fallujah in November ’04 and became the overall emir of Yusufiyah in the summer of ’06,” Anderson said in a videoconference from Baghdad.

“His group was responsible for kidnapping our American soldiers in June 2006,” Anderson said.

Good riddance, terrorist asshole. May you burn in hell.

This reminds me of when we got Zarqawi. If you missed it the first time around, here’s the Zarqawi remix. Like fine wine, this just gets better with age:

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