US nabs top al-Qaeda militant
2007-04-08 10:40
Baghdad - US forces captured a leading al-Qaeda militant on Sunday whom they hold responsible for a wave of deadly car bombings in the capital, the military said in a statement.
It did not name the suspect but said he was a close aide of al-Qaeda's Baghdad commander.
A US military spokesperson told AFP the captured militant acted as a point man for the al-Qaeda commander.
He was a "gatekeeper, somebody through whom you needed to go to meet the leader," he said.
The military statement said the captured militant had ties to several senior al-Qaeda figures and was suspected of involvement in a series of deadly vehicle bombings in the capital.
It said he was detained along with two other known al-Qaeda militants.