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Dec 9 2008, AP

Iraqi police have arrested 30 members of an al-Qaida cell, including the alleged mastermind of truck bombings that killed 17 people in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, officials said Tuesday.

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Iraqis inspect the site where a female suicide bomber blew herself up in Amiriyat just outside Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008. Police and hospital officials say two women and a 10-year-old girl were killed in the.