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U&Q informantâs brother dead
Gunmen killed the brother of a man widely regarded as having revealed the location of Saddam Husseinâs murderous sons to U.S. troops in an attack on his car on Saturday, police said. Saddamâs sons Uday and Qusay were killed in July 2003 when soldiers stormed a villa in Mosul belonging to Nawaf al-Zeidan, who is distantly related to Saddam. Locals said Zeidan had tipped off U.S. forces that Saddamâs sons were staying at his villa. Zeidanâs brother, Salaah al-Zeidan, was killed and three of his male relatives traveling in the same vehicle were wounded, including an eight-year-old boy, during the attack on Saturday. "There was an attack on Saalah Zeidanâs car, he was killed," said a police officer in Mosul, who declined to be named. It was not clear whether the killing in the cityâs northern al-Hadbaa neighborhood was a targeted assassination. The U.S. military confirmed it had been tipped off about the whereabouts of Uday and Qusay, and said the informant had been paid a $30 million reward and was resettled in a Western country. It never confirmed whether Zeidan was the informant.
Posted by: Korora 2004-06-05 |
