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Saudi Paper Reports Arrest of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
By Staff
Mar 6, 2005, 11:21

It is being reported by the Saudi newspaper, Al Watan that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been captured and arrested. al-Zarqawi is the leader of the al-Qaeda resistence movement in Iraq and is believed to be the mastermind behind scores of suicide bombings,kidnapping and beheading of several foreigners in Iraq.

The Saudi paper is reporting that the announcement of al-Zarqawi's arrest was delayed "until a new Iraqi government is in place" and went on to say that the so-called right-hand man of Osama bin Laden had been in custody since February of this year.

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