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  • Iraq follows Al Qaeda coup with mass arrests (14 al-Qaeda dead and 200 captured)

    09/04/2006 8:20:01 AM PDT · by jmc1969 · 159 replies · 6,706+ views
    AFP ^ | September 4, 2006 | David Clark
    Iraqi security forces killed 14 "terrorists" and arrested almost 200 suspects, the government said Monday, in a spectacular follow-up to their earlier capture of an alleged top-level Al Qaeda leader. Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki's office announced that over the previous 24 hours a large force of Iraqi troops and police swept through suspected insurgent strongholds in the Euphrates valley south of Baghdad. Taken with the arrest of Hamed Jumaa Al Saedi, an Iraqi alleged to be the Al Qaeda militant network's number two in the country, the arrests will be seen as a victory for Maliki's embattled government in...