Five suspected IED makers arrested in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Iraqi police have arrested five people accused of manufacturing improvised explosive devices, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

The Multi-National Force-Iraq said in a release Wednesday that two of the five were arrested in the northern province of Kirkuk when a man wanted for belonging to an IED-making ring, Diya' Abdul Ghani Musa, was arrested along with an suspected associate of the terrorist group al-Qaida.

Another Iraqi police squad, along with U.S. advisors, arrested three suspects in Muqdadiyah, located approximately 55 miles northeast of Baghdad, who were believed to be al-Qaida associates. The MNF said the three were thought to be involved in the construction and distribution of IEDs in the Baghdad region.