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/ 27 September 2005

Killing a ‘painful blow’ to al-Qaeda

United States and Iraqi forces said they had killed the second most powerful figure in the al-Qaeda in Iraq organisation, but the organisation denied that Abdullah Abu Azzam was their number two leader and said ”it was not confirmed” that he had been killed. Police also found the corpses of 22 Iraqi men who had been shot in the head and dumped in a deserted area of Badrah district northeast of Kut city.