The Political Chase

Suspect Arrested in Sunni Sheik Killing

From the New York Times:

American military officials said Sunday that they captured a suspected militant linked to last week’s assassination of a Sunni Arab tribal leader in Anbar Province, in western Iraq, who had collaborated with the American military to fight insurgents.

An American military statement announced the arrest of the suspect, Fallah Khalifa Fayyas al-Jumaili, after a raid near Balad, north of Baghdad. Mr. Jumaili, also known as Abu Khamis, had been involved in a plot to kill several Sunni leaders working with the Americans against Sunni extremists, the statement said.

And Osama bin Laden remains free.