 (KUNA) -- The head of the Karbala Council arrested Thursday is a terrorist and leader of an assassination ring in the Southern Iraqi region, the US Army stated Friday. The army statement said Iraqi land forces raided a location in Karbala yesterday morning and arrested Sheikh Aqeel as a senior terrorist leader and head of a terrorist organization. According to the same statement, Iraqi Army soldiers arrested Aqeel with the assistance of coalition consultants and that not a single fire had been shot.
| Or something like that... |
| Not even one round of bullet? |
The statement said "Aqeel is wanted for the assassination of several Iraqi nationals and was planning attacks against Iraqi forces and coalition targets. He was also responsible for financing second-line leaders and supplying them with explosives." The US Army claimed Aqeel was involved in the killing of seven members of the coalition in Karbala last year and the assassination of Iraqi intelligence officers of Karbala's Al-Mukhayem Precinct. The Iraqi and US forces had jointly arrested Aqeel Al-Zubaidi, head of Karbala Governorate Council, and one of his aides in a grand-scale raid that involved 50 soldiers from both sides. |