Suspected al Qaeda leader in Iraq arrested

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Al Qaeda in Iraq shares a name and ideology if not organisational ties with Osama bin Laden's network, which was blamed for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

The U.S. military says al Qaeda in Iraq is largely foreign led but that its foot soldiers are mainly Iraqis.

(Additional reporting by Tim Cocks in Baghdad and Inal Ersan in Dubai; writing by Dean Yates; edited by Andrew Dobbie)

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