BAGHDAD (AFP) — US troops captured a suspected Al-Qaeda militant on Friday who is believed to have been involved in a suicide bombing west of Baghdad that killed 25 people, three of them US marines, the military said.
"A man wanted for his alleged involvement in an Al-Qaeda cell in Anbar province identified himself to coalition forces during a precision operation targeting him Friday," the military said in a statement.
It said he was part of a cell believed to be responsible for Thursday's bombing in the town of Garma in Anbar province which killed 20 senior members of local anti-Qaeda groups, three US marines and two interpreters.
The suicide bomber blew himself up at the meeting venue in the mayor's office in Garma, a town near the former Sunni rebel bastion of Fallujah.
Mayor Kamal al-Abdali was among the dead.
The bombing came just days ahead of the planned transfer of security in Anbar province from the US military to Iraqi forces.
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