MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (April 19, 2010) – U.S. Central Command Commander, Gen. David Petraeus, has released the following statement today on the deaths of Abu Ayyub al-Masri, head of Al Qaeda-Iraq, and his partner, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State of Iraq, west of Tikrit during a joint Iraqi-U.S. operation:I congratulate the Iraqi and U.S. forces who conducted the operation that resulted in the deaths of the heads of Al Qaeda-Iraq and the Islamic State of Iraq.
These two extremist leaders were responsible for barbaric attacks that killed thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens and Iraqi and Coalition Security Force members. Their deaths constitute another major milestone in the effort to defeat extremism in Iraq.The operation that resulted in the deaths of the two leaders is a further illustration of the development of the capabilities of the Iraqi Security Forces.
Good Work.
0 comments:
Post a Comment