6,000 Al Qaeda Killed in Iraq
[ aproximately half of these deaths were suicide bombing in which the AQ Jihadi almost invariably killed other Muslims in drastically larger portion than US or Coalition forces. ]
Baghdad: Six thousand Al Qaida fighters have been killed since the beginning of the Iraq war five years ago, of which half died in suicide operations, according to a top official in the Iraqi army.
The official revealed that about six thousand Al Qaida elements were killed in Iraq between 2003 and April 2008.
The high number of Al Qaida deaths is “a result of cooperation between Iraqi security forces and US forces,” General Anwar Amin, the Inspector General at the Iraqi Defense Ministry told Gulf News.
He indicated the members of the terror network were killed either by the US and Iraqi forces, or killed themselves in suicide bombings.