'Close' to catching al-Zarqawi
2005-01-28 21:48
Baghdad, Iraq - Authorities have captured three lieutenants of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi are are close to arresting the terror mastermind himself, Iraq's deputy prime minister said on Friday.
Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh told reporters tht al-Zarqawi's military adviser, an Iraqi named Anad Mohammed Qais, 31, had been arrested. Earlier on Friday, another Iraqi official said two other al-Zarqawi aides had been nabbed, including his chief of operations for Baghdad.
Asked if authorities were close to arresting al-Zarqawi himself, Saleh replied: "We are getting close to finishing off al-Zarqawi and we will get rid of him."
- AP