- Title: IRAQ: SECURITY FORCES ARREST TEN PEOPLE SUSPECTED OF PLANNING ATTACKS IN IRAQ
- Date: 18th July 2004
- Summary: (EU) KERBALA, IRAQ (JULY 16, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV IRAQI FLAG FLYING ON TOP OF IRAQI NATIONAL GUARDS HEADQUARTERS; SLV BLINDFOLDED DETAINEES STANDING OUTSIDE IRAQI NATIONAL SECURITY GUARDS BUILDING; MV TWO OF BLINDFOLDED DETAINEES GUARDED BY A MASKED NATIONAL GUARD 0.17 2. MV DETAINEES STANDING AROUND TABLE PLACED ON IT FAKE PASSPORTS, MONEY AND COMMUNICATION DEVICES; SCU U.S. DOLLARS AND JORDANIAN CURRENCY, FAKE PASSPORTS AND COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT PLACED ON TABLE; CLOSE OF COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT; SCU STACKS OF U.S. DOLLARS/ JORDANIAN CURRENCY AND FAKE PASSPORTS; SCU MAN TOUCHING U.S. DOLLARS; MV IRAQI NATIONAL GUARDS WITH DETAINEES (5 SHOTS) 0.54 3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) IRAQI NATIONAL GUARD OFFICER, SAYING: "Our expectation is that either they have links to terrorist elements in Iraq or they have trained abroad and sent to Iraq." 1.05 4. SCU MONEY ON TABLE FLAPPING IN WIND; CU IRAQI MAP ON UNIFORM OF IRAQI NATIONAL GUARD; SV BLINDFOLDED DETAINEES 1.21 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: KERBALA, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA5RON6ZG4N1T0ZK1IFJT524YC3
- Story Text: Iraqi security forces in Kerbala arrest 10 people
suspected of planning attacks in Iraq.
Iraqi security forces in the holy southern city of
Kerbala on Friday (July 16, 2004) arrested a group of 10 people
suspected of planning attacks in Iraq.
Iraqi National Guards in the city said they acted on
tips and were able to locate and arrest the group.
"Our expectation is that either they have links to
terrorist elements in Iraq or they have trained abroad and
been sent to Iraq," said a National Guard officer.
A sum of 80,000 U.S. dollars, communication devices
and faked passports were seized with the group. No further
details were given and no information was available on the
nationalities of the members of the group.
The group was not the first to be netted by the Iraqi
police over the past week.
An Iraqi man with links to al-Qaeda network was
arrested in the nearby holy city of Najaf on Thursday (July
15) and confessed to be paid by Saudi-born militant Osama
bin Laden to carry out attacks in the city.
On Wednesday (July 14), Iraqi police arrested members
of a cell blamed for bombings that killed more than 100
people in southern Iraq and was suspected of links to al
Qaeda.
The police chief in the southern city of Najaf said the
suspects were thought to have been involved in an attack
using mortars and explosives that killed scores of Shi'ite
pilgrims in Kerbala in March.
They were also suspected of being linked to a car
bombing in Najaf last August that killed more than 80
people, including top Shi'ite Muslim leader Ayatollah
Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim.
Iraq launched a national security law last week under
which the government can impose emergency law on specific
areas of the country, but has yet to make such a move.
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