Senior AQI Bomber Is Killed

BAGHDAD [MENL] -- The U.S. military has killed an operative said to have
masterminded suicide attacks around Baghdad.
The U.S. military said Mahir Ahmed Mahmoud Al Zubaydi was killed in
Baghdad's Sunni district of Adhamiyah in what officials termed a significant
blow to the Sunni insurgency network. The military said Al Zubaydi, also
known as Abu Assad, was killed along with an unidentified woman on Oct. 3 in
a shootout with U.S. forces.