BBC News - Senior Iraqi al-Qaeda leaders 'killed': "Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki and US officials say two leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq have been killed in a joint Iraqi-US operation.
Mr Maliki said on national TV that the Iraqi al-Qaeda leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who led an affiliate group, were dead.
US Vice-President Joe Biden said their deaths were 'potentially devastating blows' to al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Mr Maliki said both had been killed in Salaheddin province, west of Baghdad.
Iraqi TV showed pictures of both men before and after their deaths."
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