Our military has liberated another soul from this mortal coil. The latest Al-Qaeda in Iraq number 2 has gone to meet his maker:
The military said it killed Abu Qaswarah on Oct. 5 during an operation in northern Iraq in which four other alleged al-Qaeda members were slain.
Qaswarah, also known as Abu Sara, directed the group’s operations in northern Iraq, where al-Qaeda in Iraq remains entrenched and has been blamed for recent large-scale attacks, the military said.
The Moroccan native was the deputy of the group’s leader, an Egyptian who uses the name Ayyub al-Masri, and he had “historic ties” to the group’s founder, Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in June 2006, the military said in a statement issued Wednesday afternoon.
Well done, folks. This is one of several favorable missions that the military has completed recently. FOr example:
