BAGHDAD (AFP) - A deputy of a firebrand Shiite leader has been arrested Iraq in connection with the killing of two US soldiers, US military deputy director for operations Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said.
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Soldiers of the U.S Army's 4th Infantry Division (Task Force Ironhorse ) search a garden with Iraqi police during operation 'Lockdown' in the village of Aswan outside the town of Baquba in central Iraq, December 3, 2003. U.S. troops searched more then 500 houses in the village looking for weapons and members of a suspected cell who attacked U.S.-led coalition forces. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
A detained Iraqi man is marked by a red ribbon during operation 'Lockdown' in the village Aswan outside the town of Baquba in central Iraq, December 3, 2003. Soldiers of 4th Infantry Division (Task Force Ironhorse) searched more then 500 houses in the village looking for weapons and members of a suspected cell who attacked coalition forces. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
A soldier of the U.S Army's 4th Infantry Division (Task Force Ironhorse) searches a bedroom during operation 'Lockdown' in the village of Aswan outside the town of Baquba in central Iraq, December 3, 2003. U.S. troops searched more than 500 houses in a village looking for weapons and members of a suspected cell who attacked coalition forces. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov REUTERS
US soldiers prevent Iraqi officers (blue shirts, front) and villagers al-Riyadh near Hawijah. US troops detained the private secretary of Saddam Hussein's fugitive number two, Izzat Ibrahim, during a huge search.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)