Al-Qaeda leader caught in Iraq
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Big News Network.com Thursday 8th May, 2008
Arabic television station al-Arabiya has reported the leader of Al
Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, has been arrested.
While the US military has not confirmed the arrest, Arabiya said
Muhajir had been detained in a joint Iraqi-US operation in the northern
Iraqi city of Mosul.
Muhajir is the successor to Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
who was killed in a US air strike in June 2006.
Muhajir, an Egyptian also known as Abu Ayyab al-Masri has a US
reward
of US$5 million on his head.
It had been thought that Muhajir had been killed in an action
against
al-Qaeda last year, but it became obvious he had survived when an audio
tape
from him was sent to media organisations.
In the hour long tape, issued last month, Muhajir called for renewed
attacks on American troops.
He called on Al Qaeda fighters to provide "a head of an American as
a
present to the trickster Bush" in a month-long campaign.
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