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- ↑ US military: Mastermind of Baghdad bombings killed, Associated press (via GoogleNews), October 4, 2008. Archived October 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 US kills 'senior Baghdad bomber', BBC News, October 4, 2008.