Al-Zarqawi lieutenant 'killed in Mosul'
A lieutenant of al-Qaida terror boss Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been killed by Iraqi security forces in Mosul, the US military said tonight.
Mohammed Salah Sultan, also known as Abu Zubair, was killed on Friday, the US statement said.
The statement said Abu Zubair was a “known member of al-Qaida in Iraq” and an al-Zarqawi lieutenant sought over a July suicide bombing of a police station in Mosul in which five Iraqi police were killed.
Abu Zubair was wearing a suicide pack with explosives when he was killed, the US statement said.
“He was also suspected of resourcing and facilitating suicide bomber attacks against coalition, Iraqi security forces and Iraqi citizens throughout the country,” it added.
The statement said that last week US and Iraqi forces captured three bomb makers and six foreign fighters as well as finding and clearing 101 improvised explosive devices in the Mosul area.
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