Top al-Qaeda figures held in Iraq

From The Australian

From correspondents in Cairo
July 15, 2004

IRAQI interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said his security forces have arrested several top al-Qaeda figures who claimed to have a budget of a billion dollars to wage attacks in the violence-wracked country.

"During the last two or three days we have arrested top figures including the driver of the organisation's Iraqi chief Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi," Mr Allawi said in an interview with the Arabic newspaper Al Hayat.

He also said the Iraqis had arrested a Tunisian and a Moroccan who were planning attacks against US forces in the country.
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