U.S. denies Iraqi reports al Qaeda leader dead
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The U.S. military and Iraqi government denied reports on Thursday that al Qaeda's leader in Iraq had been killed in a raid but said DNA tests would be conducted on bodies recovered after the attack to make sure.
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France's Defense Ministry said on   Saturday a secret service report saying al Qaeda leader Osama   bin Laden had died could not be confirmed but said it would   launch an inquiry into the leak of secret documents.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Monday he knew of no &quot;strong, hard evidence&quot; linking Saddam Hussein&#39;s Iraq and al Qaeda, despite describing extensive contacts between the two before the Iraq invasion.
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A militant group headed by al Qaeda ally  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has killed an American captive in Iraq  after the lapse of a 24-hour deadline Tuesday, a statement  posted on the Internet and an Arabic channel said.
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A message posted on an Islamist Web site  said Monday the militant group of al Qaeda ally Abu Musab  al-Zarqawi had killed one of two Americans it was holding  hostage, but the report could not be immediately verified.
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The U.S. military is no longer able to defeat a bloody insurgency in western Iraq or counter al-Qaeda's rising popularity there, according to newly disclosed details from a classified Marine Corps intelligence report that set off debate in recent months about the military's mission in Anbar...
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An al Qaeda-led group in Iraq signaled in a Web video on Monday that it had killed three U.S. soldiers after capturing them last month, showing only pictures of ID cards of two missing U.S. soldiers.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces have arrested the   second most senior figure of al Qaeda in Iraq and killed 20   fellow militants, Iraq's national security adviser said on   Sunday, claiming a major victory over the insurgents.
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A top Al-Qaeda commander who led Osama bin Laden's terror network in Afghanistan was believed to have been killed when a missile fired by a US drone hit his Pakistani hideout, officials said Friday.
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The U.S. military said on Saturday that reports that Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been detained in Iraq were not credible.
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A senior Al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, described by Western authorities as one of Osama bin Laden's top six lieutenants, has been killed, U.S. officials and an al-Qaeda-linked Web site said on Thursday.
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Reports say Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's successor as al-Qaeda in Iraq leader has been killed.
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United States Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, has admitted that he has not seen any âstrong, hard evidenceâ linking former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with Al-Qaeda.
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Saddam Hussein provided no material   support for al Qaeda and had no relationship with al Qaeda in   Iraq leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, despite claims by   administration officials including President George W. Bush,   said a Senate report released on Friday.
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Iraqi police have wounded the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq and killed his top aide, a spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry told CNN Thursday. The spokesman said Iraqi police have the body of the aide but he would not comment on if Abu Ayyub al-Masri was captured. The U.S. military has so far made no comment on the report. CNN has not independently confirmed the report.
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A senior operative for al Qaeda in Iraq who was caught this month has told his U.S. military interrogators a prominent al Qaeda-led group is just a front and its leader fictitious, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 15 -- The leader of the Sunni insurgent group Al-Qaeda in Iraq, known by the alias Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was injured in a clash with Iraqi police near Samarra Thursday night, a spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.