Baghdad, Iraq ? U.S. and Iraqi troops last month killed a wanted terrorist with ties to Osama bin Laden and other senior al-Qaida figures, the U.S. military said Thursday.

Rafid Ibrahim Fattah, also known as Abu Umar al Kurdi, was killed March 27 in a raid near Abu Ghraib, a U.S. statement said.

The statement identified him as a longtime member of al-Qaida who moved between Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the 1990s and once served as a security chief for a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.

In January 2005, the office of then-Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced the arrest of a man also using the pseudonym Abu Umar al-Kurdi. It identified him as the “most lethal” top lieutenant of al-Qaida’s leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

However, the Iraqi statement gave his real name as Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf.

The 2005 statement said al-Jaaf was linked to the 2003 bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, which killed the top U.N. envoy in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and 21 others.

It was unclear whether the two statements referred to the same person, and efforts to contact U.S. and Iraqi officials were unsuccessful.