Iraq government: Key bombing figure arrested
One man 'responsible for 75 percent' of Baghdad car bombings
Monday, January 24, 2005 Posted: 1913 GMT (0313 HKT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The Iraqi government announced the arrests of several suspected insurgent leaders Monday, including one man they say has claimed responsibility for 32 car bomb attacks since March 2003.

Tha'er al-Naqib, spokesman for interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, said that Abu Umar al-Kurdi was arrested in a raid on January 15. He announced the arrests just days before Iraqis are to go to the polls to elect a legislative council that will write a new constitution.

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"We have declared a bitter war against democracy and all those who seek to enact it," said the speaker in the 35-minute message posted on two Islamist Web sites that have already carried dispatches thought to be from al-Zarqawi.

This looks like a big fish.