A statement from the American forces said the unnamed leader was arrested during a raid on December 20th in Mosul, in the north of the country.
"The terrorist leader was captured when coalition forces raided a known terrorist meeting place," the statement said.
It added that he was "attempting to flee from the location" when he was chased across the street by troops who then detained him.
According to the US military, the leader was "personally responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths, including women and children" and put up foreign fighters "to be used in suicide bombing attacks against the coalition and the Iraqi people".
MEANWHILE...
Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri released a new videotaped statement Wednesday that said "holding elections won't lead to Palestine's liberation," CNN Arabic experts confirmed.
"Those who try to liberate Muslim land through elections ... will not liberate one grain of sand of Palestine," al-Zawahiri said in video footage aired first by the Arab-language Al-Jazeera television network.
"Their efforts will only result in creating a reversion to jihad and will negatively affect the [current] struggle of mujahedeen," al-Zawahiri said.
The top deputy to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas "America's man in Palestine." He also indirectly appeared to criticize Hamas leaders, without naming them, by asking: "Why didn't they ask for an Islamic constitution for Palestine?"
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