FEB 27 2008 — Al Qaeda leader, the Saudi Jar Allah aka Abu Yasir al-Saudi and another Saudi known as Hamdan were killed Wednesday in Mosul by a guided missile fired from a US helicopter. Responsible for recent attacks, al-Saudi conducted numerous attacks against Iraqi and U.S. forces, including a Jan. 28 bomb attack that killed the five U.S. soldiers.”
The two deaths brought to 142 the number of al-Qaida insurgents killed or captured in Mosul since the end of January.