三级aa视频在线观看-三级国产-三级国产精品一区二区-三级国产三级在线-三级国产在线

  Home>News Center>World
         
 

Iraqis capture senior aide to Zarqawi
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-01-25 09:03

Iraq announced the capture of a senior aide to leading militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on Monday, hours after Zarqawi claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing near the offices of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.


An Iraqi policeman examines the site of a suicide car bomb in Baghdad January 24, 2005. Iraq announced the capture of a senior aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, hours after Zarqawi claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb near Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's office that wounded 10. [Reuters]
The interim government said it had seized Abu Omar al-Kurdi, accused of masterminding some of the country's worst car bombings, in a raid in Baghdad nine days ago.

It did not say why it had waited until now to announce his capture. Privately, one government official cast doubt on the significance of the arrest and said its announcement was a bid to boost the government's popularity ahead of Sunday's election.

Abu Omar, also known as Sami Mohammed al-Jafi, is blamed for over 30 bombings including an attack on the U.N. headquarters in August 2003 that killed special envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 20 others.

The government says he also planned a blast in Najaf the same month, which killed 80, including a top Shi'ite cleric.

"Kurdi has confessed to some 75 percent of the car bombs that were used for attacks in Baghdad since March 2003 and to making the explosives used in the attack on the Jordanian embassy in Aug. 2003," government spokesman Thair al-Naqib said.

The government said Abu Omar had received instructions from Zarqawi to carry out bomb attacks on election day -- precisely the sort of assault the government, opposition figures, voters and international observers fear.

Iraq's electoral commission has said 14 million of Iraq's 27 million people could go the polls on Sunday, creating what the U.N. has described as the biggest security and organizational challenge since Saddam Hussein's fall.

The announcement of Abu Omar's arrest and that of another senior militant, Nayef Abbas al-Zubaydi, came hours after a suicide car bomb struck near Allawi's party office in central Baghdad, injuring 10 people.

ZARQAWI THREAT

A group led by Jordanian-born Zarqawi, an ally of Osama bin Laden and Washington's top foe in Iraq, claimed responsibility for the bombing in an Internet statement.

"Your brothers in al Qaeda will continue their holy war until ... they are either victorious or martyred," it said.

Allawi's officials said he was not in the area at the time of the blast. Health Ministry officials said seven policemen and three civilians were wounded.

Sunni-led guerrillas have mounted frequent suicide car bomb attacks and ambushes on Iraqi security forces and Shi'ite Muslim targets in the run-up to the elections.

On Sunday, Zarqawi declared all-out war on the vote in an Internet audio tape, berating the Shi'ite majority for embracing the poll and urging Sunnis to fight "infidel voters."

U.S. and Iraqi forces said they were hunting Zarqawi on Monday in the former rebel stronghold of Falluja following a tip-off that he may have entered the city.

"We have heard he entered Falluja in a six-car convoy. We hear lots of rumors but we are not dismissing this," Marine Captain Leonard Coleman told Reuters.

SHI'ITES DENOUNCED

Zarqawi, who has a $25 million bounty on his head, says the election is a plot by the United States and Shi'ite allies against Sunni Muslims, dominant during Saddam's rule.

Many Sunni leaders have called for an election boycott, saying attacks from groups like Zarqawi's will prevent voting and skew the outcome in favor of the Shi'ites. A low Sunni turnout would undermine the credibility of the election.

The European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana said it would be a disaster if boycotts or intimidation sidelined Sunnis from the vote.

"It's going to be very difficult for a majority of Sunnis to take part ... it would be a disaster with no Sunni representation in this country," he told a committee of the European Parliament.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who came to power in a similarly fraught election held under the threat of violence, also urged a comprehensive Iraqi vote.

"Our Iraqi brothers and sisters should go to the ballot and play their role in determining their country's destiny," he said in a statement in Kabul.

The U.S. ambassador to Iraq, John Negroponte, predicted Iraqis would be able to cast ballots in most of the country but acknowledged there would be "problematic areas."

U.S. commanders have said four of Iraq's 18 provinces, accounting for a quarter of the population, are too unsafe for voting for a 275-seat national assembly to go ahead there.

The government plans to seal Iraq's borders, close airports, impose curfews and enforce traffic bans on election day to try to prevent suicide bombings and other attacks.

The United States has pointed to the elections as a way to stabilize Iraq by advancing democracy and depriving the insurgency of the motive for opposing a U.S.-picked government.

But on Monday, Lt. Gen. James Lovelace, deputy chief of staff for operations, said in Washington the U.S. Army was now planning to keep at least 120,000 troops in Iraq for the next two years to train and fight with Iraqi forces.

The Army total, which could be reduced before 2007 as more Iraqi forces become trained to handle security, is part of a current force of 150,000 American soldiers, Marines and other troops now in Iraq.



 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

Revision of law to upgrade coal mines

 

   
 

FM says released men to fly back soon

 

   
 

Myanmar nabs drug lord, sends him back

 

   
 

China seeks to curb corruption in big SOEs

 

   
 

Bank officials flee after US$120m go missing

 

   
 

22 of 30 problem projects stop operating

 

   
  Yushchenko selects anti-Kremlin PM
   
  Saddam's lawyer reportedly in hiding
   
  Iraqi forces seize top Zarqawi aide in Iraq
   
  Afghan President urges Iraqis to vote
   
  Qaeda ally declares all-out war on Iraqi election
   
  Suicide car bomb targets Allawi office in Baghdad
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  News Talk  
  Are the Republicans exploiting the memory of 9/11?  
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 狠狠综合欧美综合欧美色 | 亚洲性综合 | 俄罗斯一级成人毛片 | 午夜精品视频在线观看 | 成人在色线视频在线观看免费大全 | 欧美sese| 免费三级毛片 | 免费色视频 | 未满十八18周岁禁止免费国产 | 国内精品网站 | 亚洲欧美日本一区 | 国产欧美一区二区成人影院 | 国产一级特黄aa大片高清 | 亚洲国产一区二区三区青草影视 | 国产成人亚洲精品 | 伊人久久婷婷丁香六月综合基地 | 91黑丝国产线观看免费 | 久久日本精品一区二区三区 | 亚洲欧美专区精品久久 | 农村高清性色生活片 | 手机在线观看亚洲国产精品 | 91短视频免费在线观看 | 精品国产成人综合久久小说 | 色一情一乱一乱91av | 国产亚洲精品久久久久久午夜 | 日本a∨在线观看 | 国产三级在线视频播放线 | 免费日韩精品 | 影音先锋5566手机在线播放 | 欧美在线观看一区二区三区 | 在线国产观看 | 偷亚洲偷国产欧美高清 | 麻豆影视在线观看 | 亚洲成年网站在线观看 | 国产日韩欧美在线一二三四 | 一个看片免费视频www | 在线欧美亚洲 | 日韩中文字幕精品一区在线 | 国产国产精品人在线观看 | 色婷婷六月丁香七月婷婷 | 可以免费观看欧美一级毛片 |