US forces captured two leaders of a major car bomb cell responsible for attacks that killed around 900 Iraqis, mostly in the Shiite district of Sadr City in Baghdad, the US military said on Tuesday. It said in two separate statements that the two men - Haytham Kazim Abdallah Al Shimari and Haydar Rashid Nasir Al Shammari Al Jafar - were caught during separate operations in Adhamiya, a mainly Sunni Arab area in northern Baghdad, on March 21. "It is estimated that since November, the car bombs from this cell have killed approximately 900 innocent Iraqi citizens," one of the statements said. It said another 1,950 had been wounded.Just think about the magnitude of that statement. Two men, responsible for almost a thousand dead, almost 2000 maimed.
The first of the two suspects was captured when US forces noticed his vehicle weaving in and out of traffic and his driver ignored signals to stop.
The second was detained around seven hours later after
US and Iraqi forces are engaged in a major security crackdown in Baghdad aimed at stopping sectarian violence that has been killing hundreds of people a week in recent months.