Iraq bloodshed rolls on - new monster al- Masri is fleshed out by CIA.

Bomb and mortar attacks killed at least 31 people in and near Baghdad on Saturday.

A suicide bomber killed 10 people in a Baghdad Shi'ite mosque,on Friday, followed a vow by al Qaeda's new leader (who CIA Psyops have now named as Abu Ayyub al-Masri - there is a US$50,000 reward on his head) in Iraq to avenge the death of his predecessor Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in a U.S. air strike on June 7.

Pic shows results of a car bomb targeting Iraqi army and police killed 11 people.

2 U.S. soldiers are missing after an attack on Friday in which one American soldier was killed in the insurgent bastion of Yusufiya in the "Triangle of Death" south of Baghdad.

Today (Saturday) a bomb killed 6 people in a crowded market in central Baghdad and mortar rounds killed 2 people in another market in the Shi'ite district of Kadhimiya.

In Mahmudiya, s. of Bagdhad, a car bomb targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint killed 7 people.

Major General Caldwell told reporters that Abu Ayyub al-Masri, a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and close affiliate of al Qaeda's number 2 man Ayman al-Zawahiri, was in Iraq in 2002 pre - dating Zarkawi and has taken ovwer from him ... so the propaganda moves on. (pic of him (?) here.