Details of the arrest of al-Baghdadi and al-Masri by the security services and military warns of a violent reaction by AlQaeda
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A spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, Major General Mohammed al-Askari details of the death the leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, warning at the same time AlQaeda try to make a violent reaction following the deaths of the leaders of the organization.
Askari said in an interview with Al-Hurra Iraq, said security forces had taken strict security measures against the backdrop of the recent bombings in the capital Baghdad and the arrest of large numbers of criminals who provided information critical to the plans of al Qaeda in Iraq, noting that security agencies had to make an effort intelligence to follow up the cells and in secret and reached important information on the movements of cells.
The military said that a joint military force moved in at dawn on 18/4/2010 at the Thar Thar area south-west of Salah ad Din province on the back of their access to information on the presence of senior al Qaeda in the region, including Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, indicating that the force faced a military confrontation of three people wearing explosive vests blew up themselves to disguise the power that the goals were destination was detonated themselves, adding that security forces continued the process of looking and searching and found Abu-Omar al-Baghdadi and his son, Abu Ayyub al-Masri and his assistant in a hole after they passed away in addition to the arrest of a number of other elements of the organization, adding that the dead did not distort the images making it easier to identify them through pictures in addition to the fingerprinting and analysis laboratory, which were held by them and proved that each of the two people are Abu Omar and Abu Ayyub al.
He said that security services had information about the existence of a rapid reaction and retaliation for the al-Qaeda against the background of that process, explaining that happened several days ago when the security forces arrested a number of al Qaeda in Baghdad was a response to Al Qaeda quickly and by targeting embassies and randomly resulting in the deaths of large numbers of citizens victims of these criminal acts, demanding at the same time the security services of vigilance and effort to forestall the enemy.
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