US forces in Iraq said yesterday that they were holding a man suspected of acting as a barber to senior al Qaeda militants and helping them change their appearance to evade capture.
The man, named as Walid "The Barber" Muhammad Farhan Juwar al-Zubaydi, was arrested in Baghdad on September 24. Also detained on September 24 was Ibrahim Muhammad Subhi Khayri al-Rihawi, the military said, naming him also as Abu Khalil and calling him a "close associate" of Abu Azzam, a senior al Qaeda leader in the capital.
Azzam was killed September 25.
US holds suspected Al Qaeda 'barber'
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