US says has no details on death of Qaeda's Baghdadi

BAGHDAD, May 3 (Reuters) The US military said today it had no nformation that Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, a senior al Qaeda leader in Iraq, had been killed in a gunbattle with US and Iraqi forces.

Iraq's Interior Ministry said earlier that Baghdadi, the leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, a militant al Qaeda-led group, had been killed north of Baghdad.

''We have nobody in our possession ... alive or dead who is going through testing at this point,'' Major-General William Caldwell, chief spokesman for US forces in Iraq, told a news conference, referring to Baghdadi.

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