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Ali Shehab, right, with Rawa Majid, the leader of the Foxtrot network. Photo: Swedish Police

Hit squad recruiter for Sweden's Foxtrot criminal network arrested in Iraq

Ali Shehab is accused of organising shootings by children in the Scandinavian country's gang war

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