The Al-Fatihin Army--an influential breakaway faction of the Islamic Army of Iraq (IAI) that alone claims between 10-15 military operations daily--has announced the "martyrdom" of its top commander "Abu Abdel Rahman" in clashes with the "infidels and apostates" in the restive Iraqi city of Ramadi. In an authenticated statement published by the Al-Fajr Media Center, the group waved off any notion of disbanding following the death of their leader: "each martyr who falls irrigates with his pure blood the land of Islam and begins the path to liberating the Muslim lands and people of the evil crusaders, the Jews, and their stooges."