Suspected al-Qaeda rapist held
2009-02-15 18:12
Fallujah - A suspected al-Qaeda terrorist implicated in the rape of four Jordanian women has been arrested in Iraq after he crossed the border from Syria, police said on Sunday.
"We arrested the criminal Saadi Nayef Ali, an al-Qaeda terrorist chief, outside a restaurant north of Fallujah, just after he returned from Syria, where he was hiding," police commander Yusuf Dhari told AFP.
Ali, 26, originally from the former rebel bastion of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, confessed to having killed at least 11 people, Dhari said, and to having information about the rape of the four women on a highway in 2006.
- AFP