Al-Qaeda’s Administrative Official arrested east of Mosul:

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Al-Qaeda Organization‘s administrative official for western Mosul‘s areas has been arrested by the Iraqi forces, according to an official source in Ninewa’s Rapid Deployment Forces (RPD) on Tuesday. “A force, belonging to the RPD‘s Brigade in Talaafar township, 60 kms to the northwest of Mosul, has arrested a leading element of al-Qaeda Organization on Monday night,” the RPD source told IraqiNews.com news agency, adding that “the detention has taken place, in response to intelligence information, pointing out that Abdul-Wahid Mustapha Ahmed Saed, a Talaafar resident, who was arrested in central Mosul.” “The detainee is the administrative official of al-Qaeda Organization in areas west of Ninewa Province, charged with having been behind the supply of documents and instructions, to implement suicide operations and entrance of armed men to the areas they aim to attack,” he said, adding that he had carried several false identities, including one in the name of “Kheiruddin Jassim Ahmed.” The same RPD source had told IraqiNews.com on Tuesday that the Iraqi forces had arrested Dawoud Hassan Abdullah, the leader of the socalled “Mohammed Rasul-Allah” Brigades, belonging to al-Qaeda, who had been the Director of Talaafar Police in the past, in a security operation in central Mosul. Mosul, the center of Ninewa Province is 405 kms to the north of Mosul. JT (A) / SKH 6