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Hunted Iraqi Insurgent Leader Was A Hoax

New York Times   |  MICHAEL R. GORDON   |   July 18, 2007 09:59 PM

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For more than a year, the leader of one the most notorious insurgent groups in Iraq was said to be a mysterious Iraqi called Abu Omar al-Baghdadi.

As the titular head of the Islamic State in Iraq, Mr. Baghdadi issued incendiary pronouncements. Despite claims by an Iraqi Interior Ministry official in May that Mr. Baghdadi had been killed, he appeared to have persevered unscathed.

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