Another one down (MAYBE)..

And another one steps up to the plate no doubt.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was killed on Tuesday in an internal fight between militants north of Baghdad, the Interior Ministry spokesman said.

Brigadier-General Abdul Kareem Khalaf told Reuters "we have definite intelligence reports that al Masri was killed today."

Another source in the ministry also said Masri had been killed. Khalaf said Iraqi and U.S. forces were not involved.

The U.S. military said it could not confirm the reports.

A couple months ago, the Iraqi Interior Ministry also claimed al-Masri may have been killed, nice of him to show up and be killed again. A first-class douchebag no doubt, but this movement is all to capable of creating new leaders more than happy to kill as many as possible before they get take out. The use of "cells" makes killing individual leaders less effective as well.

Meanwhile, where's Osama?