U.S. forces have killed a senior figure from al-Qaeda in Iraq who was accused of the kidnapping last year of U.S. journalist Jill Carroll and other foreigners, the U.S. military said on Thursday. U.S. military spokesman Major-General William Caldwell said Muharib Abdul Latif al-Jubouri, the “senior minister of information” for al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed north of Baghdad on Tuesday. Full Story