There was a wealth of good news out of Iraq today.
Iraqi security forces have arrested the “most lethal” top lieutenant of al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq — a man allegedly behind 75 percent of the car bombings in Baghdad since the U.S.-led invasion, the prime minister’s office said Monday.
Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf, also known as Abu Omar al-Kurdi, was arrested during a Jan. 15 raid in Baghdad, a government statement said Monday. Two other militants linked to Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s terror group also have been arrested, authorities announced Monday.
Al-Jaaf was “the most lethal of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s lieutenants,” the statement said.
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Al-Jaaf was responsible for 32 car bombing attacks that killed hundreds of Iraqis, the statement said.
“Abu Omar al-Kurdi claims responsibility for some of the most ruthless attacks on Iraqi police forces and police stations,” said Thaer al-Naqib, spokesman for interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
The statement said al-Jaaf “confessed to building approximately 75 percent of the car bombs used in attacks in Baghdad since March 2003,” al-Naqib said.
Authorities also announced Monday that Iraqi security forces had arrested a man described as the chief of al-Zarqawi’s propaganda operations.
And in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi forces seized one of al-Zarqawi’s weapons suppliers.
Excellent.