By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Iraqi officials have received reports that the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was killed north of Baghdad but the information has not been confirmed, the chief government spokesman said Tuesday.
The statement by spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh followed a welter of reports from other Iraqi officials that Abu Ayyub al-Masri had been killed.
US officials said they could not confirm the reported death.
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