APA - Senior al-Qaeda terrorists arrested in Wasit, Iraq

Baku – APA. After raiding several houses in the al-Suweira district, 135 kilometers north of Kut, Iraqi security forces have arrested two high-level militants with links to the terrorist al-Qaeda network in the capital of the eastern Iraqi province of Wasit in a joint operation with US forces, APA reports quoting Al Jazeera.

The militants were captured on Thursday morning, after security forces were tipped off by intelligence sources about their presence in the area.

A police source said that the militants are wanted for involvement in several criminal acts and bombings across Wasit province.

He went on to say that arrest warrants had been issued for them months ago.

Al-Qaeda operatives in Iraq are said to have formed an alliance with remnants of the deposed Baath Party, a move US and Iraqi officials describe as a marriage of convenience. Al-Qaeda in Iraq is believed to supply the bombers while the Baathist extremists provide the logistics and planning.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq was headed by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi until he was killed in a US air strike in June 2006. His successor, Masri, was Zarqawi’s close associate, and has a US bounty of $5 million on his head.

Iraqi and US officials blame al-Qaeda in Iraq for most of the major bombings in the country, including the attack on a Shia shrine in Samarra in February 2006 that sparked a wave of sectarian violence that nearly tipped Iraq into all-out civil war.

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