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| Al-Zarqawi has a $25m bounty on his head |
The suspect was arrested on Monday night along with a suspected local kidnapping ring, Colonel Lloyd Miles of
the 25th Infantry Division said
at the US military base at Kirkuk's airport.
Miles provided no further details about the detainee, but
said troops arrested eight Iraqis suspected of
involvement in a recent wave of tit-for-tat kidnappings between
Kurds and Arabs.
The ethnic tinderbox of Kirkuk is the scene of frequent violence
between Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen.
The Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi has a $25 million bounty on his
head and is blamed by both the Iraqi interim government and the United
States for some of the bloodiest attacks in Iraq during the
15-month-old occupation.
The US also alleges al-Zarqawi has links with al-Qaida, although some analysts say the Jordanian's threat is exaggerated and he
may not even be alive.
SOURCE: Aljazeera + Agencies