EDIT: UPDATE - According to CNN:Iraq's al Qaeda leader, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been killed, Al Arabiya television reported on Thursday.
It gave no further details. Masri, an Egyptian who is also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, assumed the leadership of al Qaeda in Iraq after Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in June.
(Source: Reuters)
At least two Arab TV networks and Reuters news agency had reported that al-Masri
was killed in a raid in Haditha, but a U.S. military spokesman said those
reports are not true.
Oh well, so much for my happy-dance.
