Military operations spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim Al-Moussawi said police on April 14 arrested members of the network based on evidence given by a failed bomber caught on the day of the attacks against German, Iranian and Egyptian embassies.
In the course of his news conference, Al-Moussawi showed videotaped confessions of a man he identified as the failed suicide bomber, Haitham Ahmed Khalaf, and the network's alleged ringleader, Mubarak Mohammed Abbas.
Since last August, there have been a series of devastating suicide car bomb attacks against foreign and government targets in Baghdad, claiming hundreds of lives. In the past months, however, security has announced a series of high-profile arrests of top Al-Qaeda operatives allegedly behind the attacks.
On March 11, police said they arrested the leading Al-Qaeda member in Baghdad, Munaf Abdul-Rahim Al-Rawi, who gave security the information they needed to kill the terrorist organizations leaders in Iraq, Abu Omar Al-Baghdad, and Abu Ayyub Al-Masri.
Al-Moussawi did not specify how many people were arrested in the raid to disrupt the alleged bombing network, which he said was linked to Al-Rawi.
In the April 4 attacks, police said Khalaf attempted to detonate his car in front of his target twice, but failed.
When he tried to escape, Al-Moussawi said he was shot and wounded by security forces, who then detained him.
"For intelligence reasons, we then announced his death on Iraqiya TV so that we could proceed with investigations on the terrorist network," Al-Moussawi said.
Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's has based his reputation on restoring security to Iraq after years of war and instability and the string of bombings had shaken his popularity.
The violence also came as the country's political factions are squabbling over the results of a close fought election on March 7, which left no clear winner.
A recount began on Monday of ballots in Baghdad after Al-Maliki, whose coalition came in second, alleged there had been fraud in Baghdad.
Election officials said that the first day of counting when smoothly with 622 ballot boxes out of around 11,000 counted so far.
