Al-Qaeda Emir (Prince) – ex Police Director of Talaafar town, arrested in Mosul:

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: An outstanding leader of Al-Qaeda Organization, who is an ex Police Director of northern Iraq’s Talaafar Police, carrying a Lt. Brig. rank, had been arrested in Mosul city, the capital of north Iraq’s Ninewa Province, an official of Ninewa’s Rapid Deployment Force (RPD) said on Tuesday, adding that his detention took place in resonse to delicate intelligence information. “An RPD force in Ninewa Province has arrested Dawoud Hassan Abdullah al-Farhat, a former Lt. Brigadier, who had previously held the post of the Police Director of Talaafar Town, 60 kms to the northwest of Mosul, on Monday evening,” an RPD official told IraqiNews.com news agency. The RPD official stressed that “the detainee had held the post of Emir (Prince) in the socalled “Mohammed, Rasul-Allah Brigades,” one of the organizations belonging to al-Qaeda Group, and is wanted by the Judiciary, under charges with having carried out several violence acts.” Mosul, the center of Ninewa Province, is 405 kms to the north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. JT (A) / SKH 5