Cell leader importing Iranian weapons detained

CNN:

Iraqi and coalition forces killed five suspected terrorists in raids in Baghdad on Saturday and detained a "suspected terrorist cell leader" who is linked to Iran's weapons and training network, the U.S. military said.

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The person arrested on Saturday in Sadr City, according to the U.S. military, was suspected leader of a terrorist cell "known for facilitating the transport of weapons and explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, from Iran to Iraq, as well as bringing militants from Iraq to Iran for terrorist training."

After the arrest, the military said nine vehicles moved into the area and positioned themselves to "block and ambush Iraqi and coalition forces."

Iraqi and coalition forces called in an airstrike. All nine vehicles fought and five terrorists suspects were killed, the military said.

According to an official in Iraq's Ministry of Information, the attack planes hit a line of cars queuing next to a gas station near Sadr City. Six cars were destroyed, three civilians were killed and eight others were wounded, the official said.

On Friday, the U.S. military said coalition and Iraqi forces arrested an (sic) person closely linked to the suspected leader of a terrorist cell during raids, also in Sadr City.

Both arrests involved suspects thought to have "direct ties to the leader of the EFP network as well as acting as a proxy for an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' officer," the military said.

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These arrest could lead to some valuable intelligence on Iranian involvement and the rat lines used to bring the weapons into the country. There is some indication that some of the attacks have been planned and practiced in Iran using mock ups of the site to be attacked. We should be planning our target list for Iran.