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From NDTV (New Dehli) & AP: Iraqi police said that a local Al-Qaeda leader was killed early on Saturday. He was killed in a police raid on his home north of Baghdad. Abu Omar al-Douri resisted police for about an hour before he was killed at around 4 am in his house in downtown Samarra, a police officer said. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity, as he was not authorized to speak to media. Samarra is mostly a Sunni Muslim town, about 95 kilometre north of the Baghdad. Al-Douri was assigned to lead al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) operations in Samarra just one week ago, said the police. It was unclear whether his predecessor was killed or captured. The US military has not given any comment on the incident.
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From CNN: Mahmoud al-Douri, who also went by the name Abu Omar, was killed during a raid on a Samarra house, a police official said. Police said al-Douri shot at them and they fired back, killing him. Weapons, explosives and a car bomb were found at the house, the Samarra police official said. Samarra is in Salaheddin province, one of four northern Iraq provinces where Iraqi and U.S. forces have been conducting a stepped-up campaign against militants.
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