Detained Qaeda man not Baghdadi - Iraqi officials
BAGHDAD, (Reuters) A top leader of an al Qaeda linked group arrested
on Friday and initially thought to be Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was not in
fact the head of the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq, Iraqi officials
said.
Baghdadi's Islamic State of Iraq, a body set up by al Qaeda's Iraq
wing and some other Sunni militant groups in October, has claimed
responsibility for a string of major attacks.
"We captured a figure who was a senior al Qaeda member and we
suspected that he was Abu Omar al-Baghdadi but after initial
investigations it was proven it was not Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. But he was
a senior al Qaeda leader," said Iraqi military spokesman Qassim
Moussawi. |