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US forces arrest top Kurdish Al-Qaeda
'bomb-maker'
28.8.2006
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BAGHDAD, August 28, 2006 ,-- An alleged Al-Qaeda
militant suspected of bombing the office of
President Jalal Talabani's party in Kurdistan
(northern Iraq) has been arrested near the oil hub
of Kirkuk, the US military said.
US military spokesman Major General William Caldwell
said the militant, an Iraqi Kurd, was arrested on
August 19 and is a "bombmaker suspected of
orchestrating some of the most horrific bomb
attacks" in Iraq.
Caldwell said he is considered an "explosive expert
producing suicide vests,
improvised-explosive-devices and detonation devices
and is known to have facilitated the movement of
high level leaders of Al-Qaeda in Iraq."
He said the captured individual was also close to
the Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who allegedly took charged
of Al-Qaeda's Iraqi subsididary following the June 7
death of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
During the operation, five suspected "terrorists"
were killed and another five detained, he told
reporters.
"Intelligence does indicate that the captured
terrorist was also involved in the bombing of a
Kurdish political party headquarters in Mosul on
August 15," Caldwell said, referring to the
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
On August 15 a truck bomber detonated his load of
explosives near the PUK office and killed eight
Kurdish peshmerga militiamen and wounded 51 others.
Caldwell said in a series of operations against the
Al-Qaeda network in the month of August, US forces
conducted "140 assaults, killed 17 individuals,
wounded five and detained 300 suspects."
AFP
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