Two Zarqawi associates arrested

A top Iraqi security official said today the government has arrested two close associates of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi just days before historic elections that Zarqawi’s group has pledged to disrupt.

Qassim Dawoud, a top security adviser in the government of interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, gave few details of the two arrested men, but said one had headed Zarqawi’s operations in Baghdad.