Iraqi police have invited journalists out to meet a man they accuse of running a murderous Al-Qaeda-linked outfit and whom they implicate in the rape of several women. Security forces and the press, it’s a big turnout to watch the Iraqi police force at work. The message. That the law is winning over lawlessness in Iraq. The man in handcuffs dragged in front of the cameras is Saadi Nayef Ali. He's been transported to the scene of the crime to show where he put a bullet to the heads of three Shiite Muslims. Riad Raham, police officer, "The suspect, Saadi Nayef Ali, has admitted that he killed a group of people, and was abetted by an armed group." Nayef Ali is 26. He stands accused of leading a group of Islamist militants with ties to Al-Qaeda. Police say he staged multiple attacks on this road linking Baghdad to Jordan. They say he's admitted to 11 murders most of them of police officers and implicate him in the rape of four Jordanian women in 2006. He fled to Syria but was hunted down following an Iraqi police investigation. Police Major Yusuf Dhari, "Our source phoned us saying that Saadi had left Syria for Iraq, so we placed our informants in every restaurant and cafe along the way from Syria to Baghdad. He was arrested by highway security forces after they received a phone call from one of our sources." That arrest is a point of pride for the government of the once-lawless al-Anbar province. Fallujah, its capital, was the centre of the insurgency against US forces. Now it has come full circle in last month's elections, voter participation was among the highest in the country.
Iraqi police have invited journalists out to meet a man they accuse of running a murderous Al-Qaeda-...
