Sat Nov 14, 2:01 PM ET

A view of the northern city of Sulaimaniyah in the autonomous Kurdish region, some 330 kms from Baghdad in July 2009. The security services of Iraq's northern Kurdish area said Saturday they had arrested a key Al-Qaeda figure allegedly behind a string of bomb attacks, in an operation backed by the US military. (AFP/File/Shwan Mohammed)

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