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UK telegraphUS and Iraqi forces have killed a third al-Qaeda leader the day after the deaths of two senior figures in the terrorist organisation were announced.Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri were killed in a joint operation Sunday in what Vice President Joe Biden called a "potentially devastating blow" to al-Qaeda in Iraq.
The joint forces quickly followed that up with a morning raid the following day in which insurgent leader Ahmed al-Obeidi was killed in the northern province of Ninevah,
Maj Gen Qassim al-Moussawi, an Iraqi military spokesman, said Obeidi was in charge of al-Qaida in Iraq's operations in the provinces of Kirkuk, Salahuddin and Ninevah.
Maj Gen Stephen Lanza, a US military spokesman, said American and Iraqi security forces would be keeping pressure on al-Qaeda. "They're still a threat here, and we will not lose sight of that," he said.
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