(5/25/2005): US-led forces arrest top Zarqawi aides in Iraq (AFP) 25 May 2005 BAGHDAD - Iraqi and American forces said Wednesday they havearrested two top aides to Al Qaeda�s frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a day after the country�s most wanted man was reported wounded. Described as �one of the most wanted people� in northern Iraq, Mullah Kamel al-Assawadi was arrested after he tried to bribe his way past an Iraqi checkpoint, a US military statement said, while one of Zarqawi�s regional secretaries was detained in Baquba, north of Baghdad. �Assawadi was questioned by an Iraqi soldier at a checkpoint close to Balad,� 70 kilometres (45 miles) north of Baghdad, said the statement, without giving a date for the arrest. Described as one of Zarqawi�s top lieutenants, Assawadi had on him various identity papers as well as dollars with which he tried to buy the soldier�s silence, it said. The Iraqi defence ministry also announced the arrest in Baquba Tuesday of Zarqawi�s secretary for Diyala province, Agha Omar, without providing further details. News of the arrests came a day after an Internet statement issued by Zarqawi�s group said the Jordanian-born militant had been wounded. Zarqawi�s group has been behind many of the deadliest bombings and hostage beheadings in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein two years ago and the United States has put a 25 million dollar price on his head. The Iraqi government had no comment about the reported wounding of Zarqawi, who has a 25-million dollar bounty on his head and is believed to have escaped capture at a checkpoint in western Iraq in February. ( <http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/ May/focusoniraq_May179.xml�ion=focusoniraq> http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/M ay/focusoniraq_May179.xml�ion=focusoniraq) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
