Baeza Arrested

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3243172/Posing-jai-Baeza-arrested-brother-Kwee A report by the Press Association said on Tuesday that a senior Sunni group in northern Iraq had arrested one of the Baqija and Kwee family’s sons, Anas Baeza, during a manhunt for Sunni Arabs suspected of conducting attacks across the north.

Police officials told the PEN International Award judge at the Hague the group had executed Anas Baeza outside a school in Qaim district on 3 June after he was found with blood on his face and neck, according to the report.The group said Anas Baeza had injured two other people also during the search for youths, the Daily Mail reported.

Iraqi security officials confirmed an arrest during the search, while saying he had been wounded after his brother detonated an explosive device in Rashad district of Tal Afar province.The force raided the home of Jalal Baeza, Anas’ brother, in northern city of Karbala, and seized two rifles as well as ammunition and knives.The son of Anas Baeza was jailed for two months for involvement in a 2007 suicide bombing in Khanaqin district that killed eight people, injuring 40.

The alleged mastermind, Mahmud al-Omar, had also been summoned by the Interior Ministry in Baghdad for questioning on Monday.

British MPs were increasingly concerned about the rising prevalence of attacks by Sunni Arabs against the Shia majority and western Iraq. Many were angry that a rash of murders blamed on radical Shia sects had involved only five Sunni men, despite proof it was nearly all Islamists. The group responsible, al Qaeda in Iraq, was being treated in Baghdad as a legitimate rival to Amawi.

But, according to a leaked US State Department cable warning to Washington about its new client, Iraq’s Sunni leaders still resist any sense of co-operation with the US, a former Iraqi special forces officer living in London told the Guardian last year. “The Sunni elite are the most extreme tribal elements... who are divided between the radicals and what they perceive as moderates,” this source said. “Yet they don’t support any political party and see themselves as extremists.