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April 21, 2010 Special Dispatch No. 2922

Jihad & Terrorism Threat Monitor Weekly Digest No. 26:

April 21, 2010
Special Dispatch No. 2922

The following is the 26th edition of the JTTM Weekly Digest. It includes exclusive reports and items from the past week on Jihadist websites.

THE WEEK IN JIHAD

This week Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki announced that a U.S.-supported Iraqi special forces team had killed the top two figures in the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI): Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi, Emir (overall commander of the organization); and Abu Ayyub Al-Masri, aka Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir (the ISI's "war minister"). The Iraqis have announced the death of Al-Baghdadi several times in the past, but this time United States Forces-Iraq issued a statement confirming the information...

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