Al-Qaeda-linked terror group Ansar al-Sunnah denies leader arrested

An al-Qaeda-linked terror group active in Iraq denied on Sunday reports that its leader and two of his aides were captured by US And Iraqi forces.

"At the time we deny this report," Ansar al-Sunnah said in a statement posted on a website used by Islamist militants. It charged that the announcement of the arrests "indicates clearly to the weakness and bankruptcy of this (Iraqi) government." (AP)