Reported yesterday. Still no confirmation. That's usually a bad sign...A suspected leader of the group Islamic State in Iraq, which has ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, was detained in northern Iraq on Sunday, Iraqi security forces reported. Muharib Mohammed Abdullah, aka Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, was arrested in a joint raid by Iraqi and US soldiers in the city of Duluiya. "This is a great success for the Iraqi security forces, comparable to the killing of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi," the Salaheddin provincial administration in the town of Tikrit said in a statement.
UPDATE: Baghdad, 5 March (AKI) - The man considered the number two of "The Islamic State in Iraq" affiliated to al-Qaeda, has been arrested in Duluiya, 90 kilometres north of Baghdad, the Iraqi interior ministry said Monday. Abdullah Latif al-Jaburi - known by the alias Abu Abdullah - was picked up at the end of a blitz carried out by US and Iraqi forces on Sunday. Initially the Iraqi security forces thought they had captured Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the head of the group established last year with the proclaimed aim of establishing an Islamic state in Iraq, bringing together various insurgency groups.