U.S.: Senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader held
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The U.S. military on Wednesday announced the arrest of a senior leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, an insurgent who, the military said, is casting himself as a "conduit" between the top leaders of al Qaeda and al Qaeda in Iraq.
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KUT, Iraq  - U.S. troops detained the eldest son of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite leaders, at an Iraqi checkpoint on the Iranian border on Friday, Iraqi officials said.
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Iraqi forces have captured one of al  Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's top bomb-makers in Iraq, the  prime minister's spokesman said Monday.
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A lieutenant of al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been captured in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq&#39;s minister of state for national security said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2004 - Multinational forces captured a &quot;senior leader&quot; from terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi&#39;s inner circle today in a raid on a safe house in Fallujah, Iraq.
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The U.S. military said on Thursday the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was still very much alive, denying reports by some Iraqi politicians that he had been tracked down and killed.
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Al Qaeda's number two operative in Iraq, Hamed Juma Faris al-Suaidi, has been arrested, the U.S. military and Iraqi officials announced today. "Deliberate intelligence work both by Iraqi forces and as well as multinational forces have dealt a very severe blow to al Qaeda organization in Iraq," the planning minister of Iraq told CNN.
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U.S.-led forces in Iraq have captured a senior member of the al Qaeda-linked network led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a raid in Baghdad, the Iraqi government said on Thursday.
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Iraq announced the capture of a senior  aide to leading militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on Monday, hours  after Zarqawi claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing  near the offices of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
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Iraq said on Sunday it had arrested the   country's second most senior figure in al Qaeda, "severely   wounding" an organization the U.S. military says is spreading   sectarian violence that could bring civil war.
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The Iraqi army captured a senior al Qaeda militant in a clash south of Baghdad on Thursday, a government security spokesman said.
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US troops in Iraq say they have arrested a suspected leader of a Shia militia group allegedly backed by Iran.
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Iraqi forces detained the suspected leader of a terrorist cell network believed to be funded by Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter, who is wanted by Iraqi authorities on terrorism charges, the U.S. military announced Monday.
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The U.S. command announced on Wednesday the arrest of an al-Qaida leader it said served as the link between the organization's command in Iraq and Osama bin Laden's inner circle, enabling it to wield considerable influence over the Iraqi group.
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Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, the most recent al-Qaeda operative to be captured and held in the secret CIA rendition program before being sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in April, was captured in Turkey late last year and turned over to U.S. intelligence by that government, a senior al-Qaeda figure said in an...
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq announced the capture of a senior aide to leading militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi yesterday, hours after Zarqawi claimed responsibility for a suicide blast near the offices of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
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Two key leaders of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi&#39;s terrorist network are in US custody following a December sweep of Ramadi, Iraq, according to a US military news release issued Saturday.