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Senior al-Qaeda leader captured in Falluja

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: Police forces arrested a senior al-Qaeda leader in central Falluja, Anbar police chief said on Tuesday. “Acting on a tip-off, a joint force of police and army personnel launched a security raid in a region in central Falluja, where Emad Jarieah, a senior al-Qaeda leader, was arrested late Monday (May 24),” General Bahaa al-Karkhi told IraqiNews.com news agency. Falluja, the largest city in the predominantly Sunni province of Anbar, lies 45 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SH (P) 3