In the wake of the suicide bomber who yesterday killed 30 people and injured 42 at the home-coming banquet of an ex-Al Quaida prisoner from US military Camp Bucca, it has been revealed that a key Al-Quaida suspect has been arrested today in connection with the abduction of a US journalist, Jill Carroll, in 2006. The suspect is named by US military as Baghdad-based Salim Abdullah Ashur al-Shujayri, also known as Abu Othman.
Also Sunday, the military announced the arrest of a key al-Qaida in Iraq figure believed to have planned the abduction of U.S. journalist Jill Carroll in 2006. A military statement said Salim Abdullah Ashur al-Shujayri, also known as Abu Othman, is a Baghdad leader of al-Qaida in Iraq who oversaw some of the group's most heinous activities.



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