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| Iraq | |
| 3 tied to top Iraqi are held | |
| 2003-12-23 | |
| American troops have detained three Muslim militants with ties to Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a fugitive former top aide to Saddam Hussein, the head of the U.S. military task force here said on Tuesday. Douri, who has a $10 million bounty on his head, is No. 6 on the list of 55 Iraqis most wanted by the United States. He is believed to have helped direct anti-American insurgents and is one of the top former Iraqi officials still being sought. Be nice to find him before he dies from that cancer he is supposed to have. The U.S. military has been trying to determine possible links between Saddam loyalists and Muslim militants who may have crossed Iraq’s border to fight the occupation. Officials have alternately blamed Iraqis, foreign fighters or both for attacks. I’ll take "both" for $500, Alex. The head of the task force in Baquba, Lieutenant Colonel William Adamson, said the arrested men also had links to central Iraqi cities that are the fiercest areas of anti-American guerrilla resistance - Baquba, Falluja and Ramadi. "There are three individuals in custody, including the cell leader," he said. Adamson said the arrests, part of raids in Baquba over the past 24 hours, also netted another important four-member cell that included Major General Mumtaz al-Taji of the former intelligence department. He said all four were in custody and being interrogated. Taji is suspected of recruiting former Iraqi soldiers and directing attacks against U.S. occupation forces in the area. Witnesses and residents reported similar raids in several towns in the area. Dozens of suspected Saddam loyalists, Baath Party backers and Islamists are believed to have been arrested. That must have been one hell of a list Sammy had.
That’s all that’s left. | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 What's with these misleading topic headings today? When I read this one, I thought we had captured Chirac, Schroeder and George Galloway. |
| Posted by: Tibor 2003-12-23 8:06:48 PM |
| #1 That’s all that’s left. Yeah, we kinda captured most of the high level ones. And the low-level people just keep dying for some odd reason. |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-12-23 12:08:55 PM |