Al-Zarqawi was ‘mistakenly released’

IRAQI security forces questioned terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the Fallujah area last year but released him because they didn’t realise who he was, the deputy interior minister said yesterday.

Major General Hussein Kamal said Iraqi police were suspicious about this man and “detained for about three or four hours.”

“Iraqi police forces who were in Fallujah then did not have sophisticated equipment to take pictures of him or take his fingerprints,” Mr Kamal said.