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Iraqis report death of al-Qaida leader; US military: 'no confirmation'

(3 May 2007) SHOTLIST 1. Zoom into close up of photo of bloated dead body of man Iraqi Interior Ministry claim is Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, at Iraqi Interior Ministry news conference 2. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Khalaf, Spokesman, Ministry of the Interior of Iraq "After the daring operation carried out by our forces two weeks ago, we can confirm that the criminal Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jubouri was hit in the attack. To this date our intelligence and security forces have no concrete information about al-Jubouri's position within the Al-Qaida organisation." 2. Pictures of a man Iraqi Interior Ministry say is al-Baghdahi 3. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Khalaf, Spokesman, Ministry of the Interior of Iraq "The body was then positively identified by people who know al-Jubouri very well, and we are now certain that this is the body of the criminal Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jubouri. Now to find out if this man is the same person who goes by the name Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, we obtained an audio recording of al-Baghdadi's voice transmitted over the internet and had people who knew al-Jubouri very well listen to the recording. We are now certain that Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jubouri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi are in fact the same person." 4. Various photos of a man Iraqi Interior Ministry say is al-Baghdahi, shown at Iraqi Interior Ministry news conference 5. Pull out on US Major General William Caldwell pointing to map, during news conference 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Major General William Caldwell, US military spokesman "We in fact did kill the senior minister of information for Al-Qaida in Iraq. Muharib Abdul-Latif was in fact killed on a target set on the 1st of May at about 2am in the morning. What we do know is that he had been previously captured by coalition forces some time in 2003 and released some time in 2004. he had been in Syria for a while. We assess his family still is residing there at this time. We do know that he is closely associated with AAM - Ayyub al-Masri. We also know that Muharib was involved in both the Jill Carroll and the Tom Fox kidnappings." 7. Cutaway map 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Major General William Caldwell, US military spokesman "And again, the confusion that exists over.... I know there's been a couple of announcements that somebody did kill Ayyub al-Masri. We do not have, nor do we know anybody that has, in their possession right now, either a person alive or dead that we can do DNA analysis or photo identification on at this point. I mean that's ... we just don't have any information or knowledge of that. I am aware though of the claims that have been made, I've read them in the press reporting, but we can not do any independent confirmation of that ourselves as of this point." 9. Photo of Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jubouri, shown at news conference STORYLINE: US-led forces in Iraq conducting a crackdown on al-Qaida killed a senior member of the insurgent group who was responsible for the high-profile kidnappings of several Westerners, a US military spokesman told journalists on Thursday whilst the Iraqi Interior ministry further clouded days of confusion by stating that two different operatives, one of whom the US said it had killed, were in fact the same man. US Major General William Caldwell said the killing of Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jubouri, described as al-Qaida's information minister, had apparently led to confused reports that two other men had been killed - Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the head of an umbrella group of insurgents which includes al-Qaida, and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the head of al-Qaida in Iraq. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...