...a former senior Al-Qaeda leader in central Iraq, now working alongside US forces...

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<snip>Meanwhile, a former senior Al-Qaeda leader in central Iraq, now working in one of the so-called Awakening groups alongside US forces, survived a suicide bombing on Thursday north of Baghdad.

The suicide bomber detonated his explosives as Mullah Nadhom Mahmud's convoy was passing through the town of Dhuluiyah, some 70 kilometres (40 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraqi police Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed al-Jubburi told AFP.

Jubburi himself was in the same vehicle but escaped unhurt. He said Mahmud, 30, and three others were wounded.