Iraq arrests 'Qaeda killers' after rape of girl, 7

Iraq - Iraqi authorities have arrested seven alleged members of an Al-Qaeda cell suspected of raping a seven-year-old girl and involved in many murders, a Baghdad security spokesman said on Thursday. "Our forces have arrested seven members of an Al-Qaeda cell who confessed to kidnapping a seven-year-old girl in Yarmouk (western Baghdad neighbourhood) because her father, a teacher, had refused to