A key member of al-Qaida network in Iraq, who was allegedly behind an attack on members of the country's Yazidi minority, was captured in the city of Mosul, an Iraqi Army commander said on Thursday.
"During an overnight raid in the al-Zahraa neighborhood in northeastern Mosul, the Iraqi soldiers arrested Hatim Sultan al-Hadidi, a key member of the Islamic State of Iraq," Brigadier Nur al-Din Hussein, commander of Iraqi Army's 4th Brigade, told Xinhua.
Established on Oct. 15, 2006, the Islamic State of Iraq is an umbrella insurgency group led by al-Qaida terror network.
Hussein said that al-Hadidi was behind the killing of 23 Yazidi workers in April in the northeast of Mosul, 400 km north of Baghdad.
Yazidis are primarily ethnic Kurds, and most live near Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province. They practice an ancient Middle-Eastern religion.
Source: Xinhua
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