MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE-IRAQ
PRESS DESK
BAGHDAD, IRAQ

Press Release A091230x-01
December 30, 2009

ISF arrests 4 suspected terrorists in Baghdad, Bayji

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces arrested four suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) terrorists today during two joint operations conducted Baghdad and Bayji.

Intelligence sources led ISF and U.S. advisors to search a residential building in Baghdad for a suspected AQI leader believed to have direct involvement in several deadly, large-scale bombings targeting government buildings in Baghdad.
 
Following a preliminary investigation of evidence found at the scene, ISF arrested the AQI suspect without incident.

During a second operation conducted in Bayji, located southwest of Kirkuk, the 3rd Emergency Response Unit and U.S. advisors searched several buildings for a suspected Ansar al Sunnah leader involved in suicide-vest attacks against ISF in the Tikrit area.

Iraqi Police arrested three suspected criminal accomplices linked to the Ansar al Sunnah individual without incident.

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