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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. "Coalition forces in Baghdad conducted a joint raid with the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps and detained Amar al-Yasseri, operations director of Moqtada Sadr in Sadr City, also believed to have been behind the ambush of coalition troops on October 9," the general told a Baghdad press conference Wednesday. Yasseri was captured in the sprawling Shiite quarter without incident, Kimmitt added. The two soldiers died on October...