Al-Qaeda warlord killed, emirs arrested in Iraq crackdown
Iraqi troops killed a local Al-Qaeda warlord and US soldiers arrested two of the extremist network’s chieftains as a suicide car bomber struck police in one of the group’s strongholds on Thursday. Al-Qaeda crackdowns were announced after a series of car bombings killed more than 80 people in Baghdad on Wednesday, which served as a bloody backdrop to mounting political crisis in Iraq’s shrinking coalition government. Full Story