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Suspect arrested in 2006 Iraqi wedding attack |
2011-05-29 |
BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces have arrested a Sunni insurgent who confessed to involvement in attacks that killed 70 people, including nearly two dozen at a wedding in 2006, a senior Iraqi intelligence officer said Saturday. The suspect is accused of heading a terrorist cell in northern Baghdad and was picked up earlier this month with four other men during a security raid. In the wedding attack, a suicide bomber drove an explosives-rigged car into a crowd outside the brideÂ’s home, killing 23 people. The intelligence official did not immediately know if the Baghdad cell was linked to al-Qaida. But they'll find out... |
Posted by:Steve White |