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KIRKUK, Iraq, June 12 (AFP) - 7h17 - Four
suspected members of Ansar al-Sunna, a group linked
to the Al-Qaeda terror network, have been arrested
in in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, security
officials said Sunday.
"Kurdish security officials were informed about one
of the most dangerous cells of Ansar al-Sunna and
busted it in one of the mosques north of Kirkuk,"
the the local Joint Coordination Centre, an Iraqi-US
security coordination unit, said in a statement.
The four Kurdish men were arrested at the main
mosque in Rahimao, a predominantly Kurdish
neighbourhood on Kirkuk's northern side, said the
statement adding that the group was using the mosque
for "propaganda and terror purposes".
It said the men confessed to carrying out recent
attacks in Kirkuk including one on a convoy of
foreign contractors.
The Iraqi government announced on Monday a
50,000-dollar (40,700-euro) reward for the capture
of the group's presumed chief Abu Abdallah al-Chaffei,
but a statement posted on the Internet a day later
and signed by its "emir", Abu Abdallah al-Hassan ben
Mahmud, said the government has put a bounty on the
wrong head.
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