Iraq says captures senior al Qaeda figure
(Changes typo in para 2 to read Ayyub not Ayyab)
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities captured a senior figure from al Qaeda on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said.
Major-General Abdul-Karim Khalaf said the captured man, Nazal Sabar al-Jughaify, also known as Abu al-Jarrah, was a senior lieutenant to the Sunni Arab militant group's leader in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri.
Jughaify was captured in the western province of Anbar, and would be brought to Baghdad for questioning, Khalaf said.
The U.S. military said it had no information on the capture.
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