BAGHDAD - An alleged Al-Qaeda militant suspected of bombing the office of President Jalal Talabani’s party in 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-QaedaÂ’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.
| Excellent! Got the bombmaker and his minions, protectors and gophers. |