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106 Suspected Iraqi Insurgents Arrested
By VIJAY JOSHI, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces captured more than 100 suspected insurgents in raids across the country, arresting a former Iraqi general and another Iraqi believed involved in a suicide bombing last month, the U.S. command said Thursday.

Those arrested included former Brig. Gen. Abu Aymad al-Tikriti, former head of military intelligence in northern Iraq, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said. Al-Tikriti was arrested early Thursday along with three others near Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, he said.

Al-Tikriti is suspected of having led a cell of anti-coalition insurgents.

Kimmitt, deputy chief of staff for operations, also said U.S. forces captured Majid Ali Abbas al-Dazi, believed to have been involved in a suicide truck bombing Jan. 24 in the central town of Samarra. Al-Dazi was apprehended Wednesday, officials said.

The truck bomb exploded near a government building, narrowly missing a U.S. military police patrol as it turned into an Iraqi police station compound. Four Iraqi civilians were killed and 40 people were wounded, including seven American soldiers.

However, Kimmitt said the U.S. military had made little progress in determining who was behind the twin suicide bombings in Irbil on Sunday, despite claims of responsibility from a shadowy insurgent group. A total of 109 people died in the two attacks.

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