Arrests in Iraq
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Today the Iraqi government announced the arrest of several suspected insurgency leaders. Arrested insurgents include Abu Umar al-Kurdi (arrested on Jan. 15), who Allawi's spokesman Tha'er al-Naqib claims is responsible for 75 percents of the bombs used in Baghdad attacks in the past two years. The Iraqi government also stated that Al-Kurdi claimed credit for a blast that killed Shiite leader Ayatollah Bakir al-Hakim and more than 100 others at the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf in late August 2003.
Allawi's spokesman Al-Naqib also announced that Iraqi forces arrested Hassan Hamed al-Doulaimi on Jan. 14, a day after he was put in charge of propaganda for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terrorist group.