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GIs sweep Baghdad; Al-Qaida leader hurt - Yahoo! News
And you conservatives say the media only reports the bad stuff
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces pushed deeper Thursday into Sunni militant strongholds in Baghdad — where cars rigged with explosives greeted their advance — while British-led teams in southern Iraq used shipping containers to block suspected weapon smuggling routes from Iran. Early Friday, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was wounded and an aide was killed in a clash the previous day with Iraqi forces north of Baghdad.
However, the deputy interior minister said he had no information about such a clash, and two U.S. officials could not immediately confirm the report.
And you conservatives say the media only reports the bad stuff