Two aides for Zarqawi detained in Baghdad
Iraq, Politics, 1/25/2005

The Interim Iraqi government said that it had detained two aides for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who were behind planning for several operations, especially the attack against the UN headquarters in Baghdad.

Thaer al-Naqib, the official spokesman for the Interim Iraqi Prime minister said that the Iraqi security forces arrested Sami Muhammad Saeed al-Haf, known as Abu Omar al-Kurdi on January 15.

He explained that Abu Omar is considered the first person responsible for the implementation of 32 attacks by booby trapped cars. He added that the latter admitted the implementation of 75% of the booby trapped car operations which were used in attacks in Baghdad since March 2003. He also admitted manufacturing explosives used in the attack against the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad in August 2003, besides, he has connection to the assassination of Ayatullah Muhammad Baqer al-Hakim in al-Najaf in 2003.

Al-Naqib also noted the detention of another aide for al-Zarqawi, Hassan Hamad Abdullah al-Duleimi, who is responsible for the operation of campaigning for al-Zarqawi on January 14.

Meantime, "al-Jihad al-Qaida organization in Mesopotamia" which is led by al-Zarqawi attacked the headquarters of the national reconciliation party which is led by Allawi in al-Zaitoun street to the west of Baghdad on Monday and resulted in killing five persons, four of them are members of the Iraqi police men, while other 15 were injured.

In Abu Ghreib to the west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, news reports said that one American tank was disabled in an attack launched by gunmen against a vehicle for the American army in the area, giving no information about the volume of losses.

One mortar shelling fell yesterday at dawn at a school in the new "Baghdad area" used as a registration center for voters in the coming elections due by the end of this month.

In Baqouba to the north east of Baghdad, three mortars shelling fell at a police center, while one shelling fell at a police car, but no casualties among the police men were reported.

Meantime, Ansar al-Sunnah army group, which is close to al-Qaida organization said in a video tape and a statement broadcast on the Internet on Monday that it had killed one Iraqi working for the "American Security Sandy Group" to the south of Baghdad.

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