| U.S. and Iraqi forces have detained six members of a militant group suspected of carrying out a series of assassinations in the country's northern region, Iraqi police said Sunday. The men reportedly belong to Ansar al-Islam, a Kurdish group believed linked to al-Qaida. They were arrested in a midnight raid on a house in the Oruba district of Kirkuk. Five are Iraqi Arabs while the sixth is a Kurd, said Col. Sarhat Qader, a police official. "Two of the men were from Ramadi while three were from Kirkuk," Qader said. |