Azhar al-Dulaymi was an Iraqi who Brigadier General Kevin J. Bergner reported was a suspected member of the

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"Special Group" and was killed by US forces on 19 May 2007. Bergner did not describe how Dulaimi died. On October 22, 2010, '' The New York Times'' reported that whistleblower organization WikiLeaks had published formerly secret documents where US intelligence analysts described why they thought al-Dulaimi had been trained in the "dark arts of paramilitary operation" by Iran and

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. On October 25, 2010, the ''

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'' published an article skeptical of the conclusions ''The New York Times'' had drawn from the leaked documents. According to

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's '' The Surge: A Military History'' Dulaimi was "the executor of the Ministry of Health and Karbala attacks". Bill Roggio, writing in the '' Long War Journal'' also attributed an attack on the

Karbala Provincial Joint Coordination Center Karbala or Kerbala ( ar, كَرْبَلَاء, Karbalāʾ , , also ;) is a city in central Iraq, located about southwest of Baghdad, and a few miles east of Lake Milh, also known as Razzaza Lake. Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorat ...

to Dulaimi. According to Mark Urban's book on

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in Iraq, ''Task Force Black'', documents seized on March 20, 2007, when Qais Khazali and

Ali Musa Daqduq Ali Mussa Daqduq ( ar, علي موسى دقدوق) is a senior Hezbollah leader and senior advisor to Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq leader Qais al-Khazali. He was captured by US troops in Basra, Iraq on 20 March 2007 along with Qais al-Khazali and his br ...

were captured, described al Dulaimi's role in the Karbala attack and provided sufficient information for the raid where al Dulaimi died.

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