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The Iraqi government announced the arrests of several suspected insurgent leaders Monday, including one man they say has claimed responsibility for 32 car bomb attacks since March 2003.Tha'er al-Naqib, spokesman for interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, said that Abu Umar al-Kurdi was arrested in a raid on January 15. He announced the arrests just days before Iraqis are to go to the polls to elect a legislative council that will write a new constitution.
"Abu Umar al-Kurdi claims responsibility for some of the most ruthless attacks on Iraqi police forces and police stations," said al-Nakib, who said al-Kurdi was responsible for 75 percent of the bombs used in Baghdad attacks in the past two years, including attacks on the Jordanian embassy and the United Nations compound in August 2003.
He also claimed responsibility for a blast that killed Shia religious leader Ayatollah Bakir al-Hakim and more than 100 others at the holy Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf in the same month, al-Naqib said.
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Al-Naqib also said Monday that Iraqi forces earlier this month captured a man a day after he was put in charge of propaganda for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's organization.
Hassan Hamed al-Doulaimi, captured on January 14, took over propaganda from Hassan Ibraheem, who was killed by U.S. forces the day before, the government spokesman said.
Al-Naqib also announced the detention of Abdul Satar Isma'il and his first assistant, Mohammed Abu Theeb, leaders of a terrorism cell. The pair is charged with transporting terrorists and hiding them after they ran operations and attacks against security and multinational forces, al-Naqib said.
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