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A senior operative for Al-Qaeda in Iraq has been arrested and told interrogators that Osama bin Laden's inner circle wields considerable influence over the Iraqi chapter, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. Al-Qaeda operative Khaled Abdel-Fattah Dawoud Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, who was captured in Mosul on July 4, also said.

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