  Using a recent result of Bartels and Lueck (arXiv:0901.0442) we deduce that
the Farrell-Jones Fibered Isomorphism conjecture in L-theory is true for any
group which contains a finite index strongly poly-free normal subgroup, in
particular, for the Artin full braid groups. As a consequence we explicitly
compute the surgery groups of the Artin pure braid groups. This is obtained as
a corollary to a computation of the surgery groups of a more general class of
groups, namely for the fundamental group of the complement of any fiber-type
hyperplane arrangement in the complex n-space.
