'Key terror leader' held in Iraq

Sunday, August 13, 2006; Posted: 11:07 a.m. EDT (15:07 GMT)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. military in Iraq announced Sunday the detention of "a key terrorist cell leader" linked to a July bombing in Mahmoudiya.

A military news release said a patrol of soldiers detained the "terrorist" during a cordon and search southwest of Baghdad on Thursday. The military did not name the person detained.

"The cell leader is directly linked to the July 17 attack on a local market" that killed 40 Iraqis and wounded more than 70, the military said.

Earlier, Iraqi security forces captured 16 "gang members" who were allegedly planning to attack, kidnap or assassinate close relatives of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, an Iraqi Council of Ministers statement said.

While in custody the men confessed to committing murder, rape and attacking a police station that killed six police officers, the statement said. One of the members also confessed to blowing up 12 car bombs in Baghdad.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/...tion=cnn_world

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hmmm let me guess without reading....no americans got killed there today?

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