Detained Iraq Sunni leader son caught planting bombs

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BAGHDAD (AFP) — The son of leading Iraqi Sunni Arab politician Adnan al-Dulaimi has been charged with attempted murder after he was caught planting a bomb in a house belonging to a Shiite family, police said Thursday.

Police said that Muthanna Dulaimi was caught red-handed as he tried to set the explosive in a predominantly Sunni Arab district where Shiite families had lived before they were displaced by the sectarian violence of recent years.

"The defendant was arrested as he was placing a bomb inside the house that belonged to a displaced family in the neighbourhood," security spokesman Qassim Atta told AFP.

Security forces arrested Muthanna after a Baghdad court issued three arrest warrants charging him with multiple killings and forcing people out of...