US troops say seize 61 al Qaeda in Iraq members
March 2, 2006
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S. military operations in the
province of Anbar, west of Baghdad, have resulted in the
capture of 61 members of al Qaeda in Iraq, Major General Rick
Lynch, a U.S. military spokesman, said on Thursday.
Bomb making equipment, weapons and munitions were seized in
the raids on the training and bomb making facility in an area
50 km (30 miles) northeast of Falluja, Lynch said.
Some of al Qaeda in Iraq’s “critical facilitators” were
included in the 61 people captured, he said.
Source: reuters