Body said to be Iraqi Qaeda leader shown on TV
BAGHDAD, May 3 (Reuters) Iraqi state television broadcast images today of the body of a man it identified as Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, a senior al Qaeda leader in Iraq.
The Interior Ministry had earlier said Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq, had been killed in a gunbattle near Baghdad.
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Story first published: Thursday, May 3, 2007, 17:47 [IST]