SAUDI ARABIA: AL-QAEDA IRAQ LEADER 'ARRESTED'
May 09, 2008
May 09, 2008
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 9 -- The government of Saudi Arabia issued the following news release:
According to various reports, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been arrested.
An earlier statement from the Iraqi defence ministry said that al-Masri had been captured.
But an American military spokeswoman, Peggy Kageleiry, said Abu Ayyub al-Masri had not been arrested.
She said confusion had arisen because a man wi . . .
According to various reports, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been arrested.
An earlier statement from the Iraqi defence ministry said that al-Masri had been captured.
But an American military spokeswoman, Peggy Kageleiry, said Abu Ayyub al-Masri had not been arrested.
She said confusion had arisen because a man wi . . .