Al-Qaeda warlord killed, emirs arrested in Iraq crackdown
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi troops killed a local Al-Qaeda warlord and US soldiers arrested two of the extremist network's chieftains as a suicide car bomber struck police in one of the group's strongholds on Thursday.The dim bulb from Searchlight, Harry Reid, was unavailable for comment.
Al-Qaeda crackdowns were announced after a series of car bombings killed more than 80 people in Baghdad on Wednesday, which served as a bloody backdrop to mounting political crisis in Iraq's shrinking coalition government.
A militant known as Safi, touted as Al-Qaeda in Iraq's emir of Mosul, was killed in a shootout with Iraqi soldiers on Wednesday after he and two cohorts were spotted driving in the country's third largest city, the US military said.
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