Two security forces members patrol the capital Baghdad – Jaeffer a-Nassrawi Al-Qaeda’s chief in Iraq has been arrested after a two-month tracking and surveillance operation, the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior’s Counterterrorism Bureau has announced. The bureau chief’s media consultant has told Arabstoday that “a special taskforce from the Counterterrorism Bureau was able Sunday to arrest the al-Qaeda chief in Iraq after a two-month tracking and surveillance operation.”
The spokesperson refused to name the detained man.
“The arrest took place in the capital Baghdad,” he said, adding that the “documents found with the detainee revealed all the secret lines of al-Qaeda operatives in Iraq.”
“The taskforce also found lists detailing the aliases and real names of operatives as well as their locations, their movements within Iraq and the methods of communication between them.”
Further details of the operation are to be announced after the investigations have been completed, the media consultant said.