Iraq Al Qaeda leader 'not captured'
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The United States military in Iraq says a man detained in the northern city of Mosul is not in fact the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
An earlier statement from the Iraqi Defence Ministry said that Abu Ayyub al-Masri had been captured.
But an American military spokeswoman says al-Masri had not been arrested.
She says confusion had arisen because a man with a similar name to the Al Qaeda in Iraq leader had been detained.
