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Iraqi National Security Advisor Muwaffaq al-Rubaie (R) plays video images of al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri during a press conference in Baghdad 01 October 2006. The Iraqi government showed today first-ever video images al-Masri, and said his capture was imminent. "I can say we are very close to Abu Ayyub al-Masri and we say to him your days are numbered," said al-Rubaie. The insurgent training video, screened at a media conference broadcast live on state television, showed the bespectacled successor of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi describing how to make a bomb. Rubaie cited Iraqi security operations around the country for his optimism the al-Qaeda chief will imminently be snared. He singled out the tribes of western province of Anbar for their efforts against al-Qaeda. AFP PHOTO/SABAH ARAR (Photo by SABAH ARAR / AFP) (Photo by SABAH ARAR/AFP via Getty Images)