British troops backed by tanks on Friday seized a leader of a rogue Iraqi police unit suspected of being behind the killing of 17 people in an ambush near the Iraqi city of Basra, the British military said. Some 800 troops launched a pre-dawn raid on a house in a southern district of Basra and captured seven people, including a “significant” member of Basra’s police Serious Crimes Unit, British military spokesman Major Charlie Burbridge said. Full Story