A militant killed during an operation in Mosul Saturday has been positively identified as a senior al-Qaeda militant known as Abu Doha, the US military said Sunday. Meanwhile violence occurring Sunday and Saturday elsewhere in Iraq killed a total of 17 people and wounded dozens more. "Along with kidnapping, Abu Doha and his associates were reportedly involved in weapons facilitation and coordinating attacks against Iraqi security and (US-led) coalition forces," a statement from the military said. "Abu Doha is also known to have numerous terrorist associates, including a key leader with ties to Syrian-based terrorists and the inner circle of al-Qaeda in Iraq's senior leadership," it added. The US military alleged that Abu Doha reportedly received his orders directly from Abu Ayub al-Masri, the head of the al-Qaeda network in Iraq. Separately, and as Muslims celebrate the Eid al-Fitr feast, a bomb on a bus went off killing six people and wounding 16 Sunday in northern Baghdad, a police source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The commuter bus exploded in Eden square near the Shiite enclave of Kazimiyah. The condition of some of the wounded is serious due to the intensity of the explosion, according to hospital sources cited by the local agency.
