Iraqi forces arrest 16 suspected al-Qaeda members
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Iraqi security forces have arrested 16 suspected al-Qaeda members accused of being behind more than 100 killings in the capital, a senior security official said on Sunday.
General Ahmed Abu Ragheef, the Interior Ministry's head of internal affairs, accused the men of carrying out the high-profile assassination in May of Ali al-Lami, a senior Iraqi politician who helped purge members of Saddam Hussein's banned Baath party from politics after the 2003 US-led invasion. (Reuters)
