Baghdad, November 27: Iraq’s interior minister says a group of 12 insurgents suspected to be behind the deadly church siege a month ago has been arrested.
Interior Minister Jawad Bolani says the arrests are a blow to the Al Qaeda network in Iraq.
He told The Associated Press on Saturday that the arrests took place in recent days.
Insurgents took about 120 people hostage in a Baghdad church in October. The deadly siege ended with 68 people dead in an attack that shocked many of Iraq’s already-hardened citizens.
–Agencies–