 In March 2008, the spokesman for a rival insurgent organization, Hamas-Iraq, also claimed that al-Baghdadi was a fabrication made by Al Qaeda to put an Iraqi face on their organization.However, US military officials later came to believe that the "position" of al-Baghdadi had been back-filled by an actual commander.The Interior Ministry of Iraq claimed that al-Baghdadi was captured in Baghdad on 9 March 2007, but it was later said that the person in question was not him.