Mounties Arrest Man Wanted For Iraq Attacks
January 20 2011
A 38-year-old Iraqi-Canadian has been arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and charged with facilitating suicide bombings in Iraq, Reuters reports.
According to a RCMP spokesman, Sayfildin Tahir Sharif was arrested in Edmonton, Alberta, at the request of the United States. He faces extradition to the U.S. on terrorism charges.
Sharif, also known as Faruq Khalil Muhammad Isa, is accused of working with a Tunisian group that carried out several suicide bombings in...
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