US captures 'top Iraqi insurgent'
US captures 'top Iraqi insurgent'
US forces say they have arrested a senior member of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the group accused of being behind some of Iraq's deadliest violence. The man was named as Khaled Mashhadani. He was captured earlier in July in the northern city of Mosul, officials said.
US military officials said he had told interrogators that the group's supposed leader, Omar al-Baghdadi, was a front.
They added Mashhadani was a "conduit" between its real Egypt-born leader in Iraq and top al-Qaeda figures globally.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/6904575.stm
Published: 2007/07/18 11:25:41 GMT
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