Posted on 06/12/2005 2:37:48 PM PDT by Dog
KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) -- Four suspected members of Ansar al-Sunna, a group linked to the Al Qaeda terror network, have been arrested in in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, security officials said Sunday.
"Kurdish security officials were informed about one of the most dangerous cells of Ansar al-Sunna and busted it in one of the mosques north of Kirkuk," the the local Joint Coordination Centre, an Iraqi-US security coordination unit, said in a statement.
The four Kurdish men were arrested at the main mosque in Rahimao, a predominantly Kurdish neighbourhood on Kirkuk's northern side, said the statement adding that the group was using the mosque for "propaganda and terror purposes".
It said the men confessed to carrying out recent attacks in Kirkuk including one on a convoy of foreign contractors.
The Iraqi government announced on Monday a 50,000-dollar (40,700-euro) reward for the capture of the group's presumed chief Abu Abdallah al-Chaffei, but a statement posted on the Internet a day later and signed by its "emir", Abu Abdallah al-Hassan ben Mahmud, said the government has put a bounty on the wrong head.
A slew of Kurds here in Nashville...largest community outside the ME.
They think we won't bomb the mosque so as not to harm a koran. Bad idea on their part and their friends turned them in. Ouch!! With friend like that this war will end soon.
And 4 suspect are still alive?
I think our forces have demonstrated otherwise enough times that the word's out.
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