BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Four members of a "death squad" from Iraq’s Interior Ministry were arrested last month, a U.S. general in Baghdad said Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, spokesman for Multi-National Force-Iraq, confirmed a Chicago Tribune report published Wednesday that said "the first evidence of a death squad" came when 22 men dressed in police uniforms were detained at an Iraqi army checkpoint in January.
Lynch said Thursday the 22 actually were Iraqi highway patrol officers employed by the Interior Ministry, and "four of those individuals were planning to conduct a kidnapping and murder" of a Sunni man.
The four members of the death squad were sent to Abu Ghraib prison, Lynch said. He said an investigation into the incident was ongoing.
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