Iraq holds 'key al-Qaeda figure'
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Iraqi officials say they have arrested al-Qaeda's number two in Iraq, said to be behind the bombing of a Shia shrine.
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The Iraqi authorities suspect that a Shiite militia linked to the Iraqi police rather than Al-Qaeda mounted the abduction of five Britons in Baghdad, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Wednesday.
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DUBAI  - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, anointed by Osama bin Laden as Al-Qaeda&#39;s leader in Iraq , has topped a US wanted list since Saddam Hussein &#39;s capture but proved elusive despite a huge reward and relentless military pressure.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 15 -- The leader of the Sunni insurgent group Al-Qaeda in Iraq, known by the alias Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was injured in a clash with Iraqi police near Samarra Thursday night, a spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry 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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The U.S. military said on Friday it had   captured a senior al Qaeda in Iraq member near an area where   the group's leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in a U.S.   air strike two weeks ago.
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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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U.S. forces have captured a man described as a senior commander of a militant group linked to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Iraqi government said on Wednesday.
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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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The second most senior figure in al   Qaeda in Iraq was arrested a few days ago, National Security   Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie told a news conference on Sunday.
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The shadowy leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida-inspired group that challenged the authority of Iraq's government, was captured Friday in a raid on the western outskirts of Baghdad, an Iraqi military spokesman said.
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The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was wounded by Iraqi security forces in a clash north of Baghdad, two Interior Ministry sources said on Friday.
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A lieutenant of Iraq&#39;s most feared insurgent leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was captured this week, the country&#39;s national security minister said Thursday, and
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U.S. and Iraqi security forces may  have come close to capturing Iraqi al Qaeda leader Abu Musab  al-Zarqawi in the past two weeks and are weakening his support  network, Iraq's interior minister said on Thursday.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 27 -- The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, said Saturday that the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has been disrupted and no longer operates in large numbers in any neighborhood of the capital.
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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 bomb  near the offices of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
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BAGHDAD, July 18 -- The man responsible for ferrying messages between Osama bin Laden and Iraqi insurgents is in U.S. custody and is providing "significant insights" into the workings of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday.