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| Man said to be Zarqawi captured: report |
| | www.chinaview.cn 2004-07-30 16:14:26 |
KUWAIT CITY,
July 30 (Xinhuanet)-- A man said to be Jordanian militant Abu Musab Zarqawi,
whose Tawhid and Jihad group has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks in
Iraq, was captured during a joint operation by coalition forces and Iraqi
police, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported Friday.
The Politics
newspaper quoted a senior Iraqi police official as saying that the US and Iraqi
investigators are trying to identify the captive, who was seized at the border
of Iraq and Syria, and has sent his DNA sample for testing.
Zarqawi, the No. 3 person of the al Qaida terrorist network, is the most wanted
suspect in Iraq and has a US bounty of 25 million US dollars on his
head.
The captive said his group operates mainly in west
Iraq and a small faction of the group scatters around Baghdad and southern Iraq.
He also revealed the hideouts of some members and ways of their
communications.
Zarqawi's group has claimed
responsibility for a number of bloody attacks and beheadings of foreigners,
including US businessman Nicholas Berg, South Korean translator Kim Sun-il and
Bulgarian truck driver Georgi Lazov.
The captive, garbed in
a white shirt and jeans, gave no resistance when he realized his hideout was
besieged, according to Iraqi police.
A week ago, Kuwaiti media reported that coalition forces and Iraqi police had rounded up Zarqawi and a handful of his followers in a certain Iraqi area bordering Syria. Enditem |
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