Iraqi anti-Qaeda chief switches back to rebels

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Source: middle-east-online

Iraqi police arrest former Qaeda member who joined anti-Qaeda militia but then joined insurgents.

BAQUBA - A former anti-Al-Qaeda militia head has been arrested on charges of working for the rebels and of killing 25 people, an Iraqi provincial police chief said on Thursday.

"We have arrested a man known as Hajji Bassem, a Sahwa militia leader. He is accused of having killed 25 people, of having carried out attacks and of having caused the displacement of people," said General Abdul Hussein al-Shimmari.

He said Bassem Ibrahim al-Karkhi was arrested in the central Iraqi city of Baquba after a tip-off and had confessed.

The suspect was an officer in Saddam Hussein's army before the 2003 US-led invasion and joined the police force after the former Iraqi oresident's overthrow, his father Abdul Hassan said.

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1. Well, that's not a good omen.