50 suspects detained for various alleged activities

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50 suspects detained for various alleged activities
Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Monday, January 7, 2008

About 50 people have been detained in the past week in and near Baghdad and in northern Iraq for alleged activities including counterfeiting money, smuggling and distributing weapons and kidnapping and murder, U.S. officials say.

Eighteen people were held Saturday during operations targeting al-Qaida networks in central Iraq, according to Multi-National Force–Iraq.

Ten of them were detained north of Habbaniyah during an operation targeting associates of al-Qaida in Iraq media and propaganda operations. As the ground force cleared the area, they said they discovered ID-making materials, machine guns, rifles and ammunition.

On Friday, two insurgents were killed and 12 detained during two operations north of Muqdadiyah in Diyala province. They are allegedly associated with the leader of a large group that conducts executions in the region, including two recent ones.

On Friday and Saturday, an al-Qaida in Iraq cell leader, a suspected weapons supplier and two other insurgents were held in two separate operations in Diwaniyah, south of Hillah, and Keshkul Kabir, near As Sa’ Diyah in Diyala province.


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