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Yesterday, as Operation Lightning started, Wolf Brigade had arrested 11 terrorists during raids in Shaulaa city North West of Baghdad and they found also a gun cache inside one of the gardens in Durra [Daura]. While members of Iraqi police force (IPF) had arrested, in Imaret and Kut, 11 terrorists one of them is Zaal Auad Kubaisi, member of Zarqawy group, as command of Nineveh police had arrested 23suspects in Mosul. A source in wolf brigade mentioned that the members of brigade arrested 11 terrorists during raids in Shaulah city.

The UPI reports today that King Abdullah of Jordan told a Saudi newspaper that Jordan wanted Abu Musab al-Zarqawi extradited to Amman prior to Saddam Hussein's removal by US forces. Saddam refused to extradite the terrorist mastermind, providing him sanctuary instead (courtesy of Laurie Mylroie): Jordan's King Abdullah revealed Thursday that Iraq's former Baath regime had refused to deport Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, blamed for ongoing terrorism in Iraq. Speaking in an interview with Saudi daily al-Hayat, Abdullah said Zarqawi, a Jordanian, is well entrenched in Iraq and that "he and terrorists like him thrive in such places where security and...