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7 Jun Ten People Arrested in Milan for Supporting Al Qaida
http://www.eitb24.com/new/en/B24_52122/world-news/AL-QAIDA-10-people-arrested-in-Milan-for-supporting-Al-Qaida/

Police in Milan on Thursday arrested a group of people who allegedly provided logistical and financial support to the al-Qaida-linked Salafist Group for Call and Combat, Italian officials said.
About 10 people had been arrested, according to a police statement, but officials said the operation in the northern Italian city was still ongoing and it was not yet known how many suspects had been taken into custody...

7 Jun London Link to Italian al-Qaeda Raid
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1898631.ece

...[i]n a statement, the Metropolitan Police said that from 1997 to 1999, Mr Ignaoua “convinced and organised volunteers to undergo military training in Afghanistan for Jihad with the use of false documentation”.

His arrest was co-ordinated with the Italian police, which this morning carried out simultaneous raids in Milan against a suspected al-Qaeda cell. Italian detectives said they are holding nine terror suspects, all of them Tunisians, who are believed to be members of the North African regional branch of Osama bin Laden’s extremist network...

7 Jun U.S. Forces Kill Two Al Qaida in Raid
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_21285044.shtml

U.S. forces in Iraq killed two members of al-Qaida and detained 10 others Wednesday during raids targeting a bomb-making operation in Baghdad...

7 Jun Pentagon Says Al Qaeda Leader Captured in East Africa
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-terrorjun07,1,2044582.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
...[h]e was identified as Abdullahi Sudi Arale.

“We believe him to be an extremely dangerous member of the Al Qaeda network,” said Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman.

Whitman said Arale was suspected of acting as a courier between Al Qaeda in East Africa and Al Qaeda in Pakistan and helping the Africans get weapons and explosives...

7 Jun Saudi Arrests 11 Al Qaeda Members

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/07/saudi.arrest/

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry announced Thursday it had arrested 11 al Qaeda members in the span of 48 hours who were responsible for financing and encouraging terrorism. A ministry statement quoting a senior ministry official said the detainees were wanted terrorists in Saudi Arabia, that their assets have been frozen and an investigation into the incident is ongoing. On Tuesday the ministry announced it had arrested three senior al Qaeda members responsible for recruiting youths via the internet and encouraging attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities...

7 Jun Iraqi Police Capture Local Al Qaida Leader North of Baghdad
http://english.people.com.cn/200706/07/eng20070607_381934.html

Iraqi security forces captured the local leader of the al-Qaida in Iraq in eastern Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, and wounded four of his guards early on Wednesday, a provincial police said on Thursday...

Iraqi security forces have been tipped off by residents of Albu Ajil suburb, 5 km to the east of Tikrit, the source said...

6 Jun U.S. Forces Kill Al Qaeda Leader in Baghdad
http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2007/06/06/afx3794120.html

...’Yesterday, coalition forces killed a terrorist leader and detained three other suspected terrorists during an operation here in Baghdad to disrupt another network bombing there,’ [BG Bergner] said.
‘Mohammed Mahmud ‘Abd Kadhim Hussein al-Mashadani, also known as Abu Abdullah, was the terrorist killed during the operation,’ ...

...[t]he death is the third reported killing of an Al-Qaeda street captain since last week, when some Sunni nationalist insurgents once opposed to the US military fell out with Al-Qaeda’s Islamist extremists and changed sides.

6 Jun Suspected Al Qaeda Leader, 17 Others Detained
http://www.blackanthem.com/News/Allies_20/Suspected_al-Qaeda_leader_17_others_detained7317.shtml

...[n]orth of Taji, Coalition Forces captured an alleged key leader in the Rusafa vehicle-borne improvised explosive device network. Coalition Forces also detained another suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist on the scene.

Based on information from a suspected terrorist detained May 29, Coalition Forces captured an alleged al-Qaeda facility manager who operates a safe house southwest of Tarmiyah.

In Mosul, Coalition Forces raided two buildings and detained two suspected terrorists, one of whom is allegedly the assistant to a senior terrorist leader captured May 29...