Aid worker Margaret Hassan murder suspects caught

The suspects were caught in a joint US-Iraqi operation:

Iraqi police say the raids happened near the town of Madaen, about 40 kilometres south-east of Baghdad.

They say 11 people have been detained, including five of who have admitted complicity in the murder of Ms Hassan.

Ms Hassan, a British national who was head of CARE International in Iraq, was kidnapped last October.

She was killed about a month later after appealing in video messages made by her abductors for British forces to withdraw from Iraq.

"We are aware that a raid was conducted and that items were recovered that we believe may belong to Margaret Hassan," a spokesman for the British embassy said.

The Special Police Commandos might well have been involved in the capture of these suspects.