Mastermind of Iraq Yazidi attack killed: U.S. military
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U.S. forces killed a militant linked to al Qaeda who masterminded truck bomb attacks on Iraq's minority Yazidi community last month that killed more than 400 people, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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Abu Laith al-Libi, a top al-Qaida commander in Afghanistan who was blamed for bombing a base while Vice President Cheney was visiting last year, has been killed, according to a militant Web site.
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A key Iraqi Sunni ally of the US, who met President George W Bush last week, is killed in a bomb attack.
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The U.S. military said Tuesday that an aide to Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in an airstrike in the militant stronghold of Fallujah.
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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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Sunni sheikh who led local clans to side with US against insurgents is killed by bomb in Iraq.
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A Sunni Arab tribal leader instrumental in driving al Qaeda out of Iraq's Anbar province was killed by a bomb on Thursday, hours before U.S. President George W. Bush endorsed limited U.S. troop cuts in Iraq.
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Iraqi police said they killed an al Qaeda in Iraq leader on Saturday in the northern city of Samarra, a day after five U.S. soldiers were killed in two explosions elsewhere.
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The new leader of al-Qaida in Iraq killed two U.S. soldiers whom the group abducted last week, an insurgent umbrella group said in a Web statement posted Tuesday. The statement, which could not be authenticated, said the two soldiers were &quot;slaughtered,&quot; suggesting they had been beheaded by Abu Hamza al-Muhajer.
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The U.S. military said on Thursday an Iranian-made rocket was believed to have been used in an attack that killed one person on the headquarters of the American military in Iraq this week.
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BAGHDAD - A US air strike killed a man suspected of directing the Aug. 14 truck bombings in northern Iraq that caused the deaths of more than 400 people, military officials said yesterday.
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The U.S. military said it killed an  ally of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in an overnight air raid on  Falluja on Tuesday, as the Iraqi government tried to find out  how Zarqawi's group managed to kill 49 unarmed army recruits.
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A Sunni tribal leader instrumental in driving al Qaeda out of Iraq's Anbar province was killed by a bomb attack on Thursday, less than two weeks after he met U.S. President George W. Bush.
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A soldier in the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq was killed and two others were missing after an attack on a checkpoint southwest of Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said.
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BAGHDAD Sept. 16- -- U.S. soldiers captured a man they believe was responsible for killing Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, the leader of a Sunni tribal movement in western Iraq and a close American ally, U.S. military officials said Sunday.
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A suicide bomber killed Nineveh province's director of police in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, the U.S. military said.
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One U.S. marine was killed in action in  the southern city of Najaf, the center of a two-week uprising  led by radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the U.S.  military said on Thursday.