KARBALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Security forces arrested on Tuesday an operative of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) Organization in area west of the holy city of Karbala.“The operative is wanted for security forces in Babel province,” Major Alaa Abbass, the Karbala police media director, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “He is wanted for committing sectarian cleansing crimes.”
Major Abbass said that the operation relied on intelligence tip off. “Security forces prepared a trap to arrest the operative,” Abbass said. “He confessed that he killed policemen.”