And a dead high-ranking terrorist is a great way to brighten up one's morning!

The leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq has reportedly been killed in a firefight today.

Abu Ayyub al-Masri died in an "internal battle" between militants near a bridge in northern Baghdad, the Iraqi interior ministry said.

If true, the death would represent a huge blow for the Islamic fundamentalist organisation. The United States had regarded al-Masri as the number one threat to the stability of Iraq, and placed a $5 million bounty on his head.

Brigadier-General Abdul Kareem Khalaf, an Interior Ministry spokesman, suggested that US and Iraqi forces had nothing to do with the killing - blaming it on an internal power struggle within al-Qaeda's Iraq cell.

"The clashes took place among themselves. There were clashes within the groups of Al Qaeda. He was liquidated by them. Our forces had nothing to do with it," he told Iraqi state television.

He later told the Reuters news agency: "We have definite intelligence reports that al-Masri was killed today."

And isn't it great that what we have here is these criminals killing each other? And now that we see the internal divisions splitting the terrorists in Iraq, do we really want to adopt the Democrats' "flee in terror" strategy?

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