US forces capture Iran-linked 'terror cell leader'
Afp, Baghdad
US and Iraqi forces yesterday captured a militant accused of smuggling lethal roadside bombs from Iran and working for an Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer after a fierce gunbattle, the US military said. The joint snatch squad called in an air strike after coming under fire during a raid on the hideout of an alleged weapons smuggling gang in the notorious Sadr City district, a Shia militia bastion in east Baghdad. Residents of Sadr City, a densely packed Shia suburb with an estimated two million inhabitants, awoke to a scene of devastation in a marketplace in the Dakhil area, with rubble from the air strike littering the area. The Iraqi defence ministry said that four people were injured in the raid and six shops burned down.
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