BBCNews is reporting that British soldiers killed Omar Farouq -- a senior al Qaeda leaders -- in Iraq.
Omar Farouq was in Iraq?! Was in Basra? The BBCNews piece has a bit of bio on the guy:
Born in Kuwait of Iraqi parents, Farouq is believed to have joined al-Qaeda in the early 1990s and trained in Afghanistan.
He became a top lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden in south-east Asia and he is believed to have been planning a series of bomb attacks on US embassies there when he was arrested in Indonesia in 2002.
To the considerable embarrassment of the Americans, he and three others escaped from the US military prison at Bagram airbase in Kabul last year.
He even appeared in a video on an Arab TV station to boast about it.
More on this later...
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