Saturday, September 08, 2007

Report: AQI finance minister erased

Baaquba, Sept 8, (VOI)- A security source in Diala province said on Saturday the Finance Minister of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq armed group was killed during a military operation in Diala province, central Iraq.

"A force from Diala police killed, on Friday afternoon, Thaer Salim Dawoud, the Finance Minister of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq, during a military operation in al-Hashemiyat village, which is a stronghold for foreign Muslim extremists coming from Afghanistan and some Arab countries," the source, who spoke on anonymity condition, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

(Aswat Aliraq)

The Islamic State in Iraq is better known in the U.S. as Al Qaeda in Iraq, or AQI.
Baghdad Sep 8 : Iraqi security forces killed the finance minister of Sunni militant group Al Qaeda, who have proclaimed a self-styled Islamic state in Iraq, during a military operation in Diyala province, a provincial security source said Saturday.
(NewKerala.com)
Keep the pressure on. Make it tough to be an American defeatist.

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