Reports noted that Iraqi security forces have killed the top military leader of an Al-Qaeda front group. An Iraqi military spokesman, Major General Qassim al-Moussawi stated that the slain militant, al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman, was the so-called war minister of the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaeda front group accountable for bombings and suicide attacks across Iraq. Iraqi officials had picked up Suleiman’s trace while investigating a suicide bombing in the city of Ramadi. In that attack, an assailant blew himself up near a convoy carrying the deputy governor of Anbar province which had killed eleven people including seven policemen and a bodyguard. It was not immediately clear whether Suleiman played a direct role in the suicide bombing or what led authorities to his hideout.1

• 1. “Iraqi forces kill al-Qaeda ‘war minister’ in raid,” Khaleej Times, February 25, 2011, at http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2...