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2nd Saddam brother captured
Washington Times ^ | 4/18/03 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 04/17/2003 10:36:32 PM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:02:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

U.S. Special Forces and Marines yesterday captured another of Saddam Hussein's half brothers, a former head of Iraqi intelligence, as teams of coalition forces focused on finding chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.

Barzan Ibrahim Hasan, the second relative of Saddam to be captured, was snatched in a nighttime raid and has extensive knowledge of the regime's inner workings, Army Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, deputy director of operations for the U.S. Central Command, told reporters in Qatar.


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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 4thid; billgertz; decapitation; halfbrother; mujahideen; mukhabarat; order; specialforces

1 posted on 04/17/2003 10:36:32 PM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
Commandos have won capitulations or surrenders...

Er, what's the difference?

2 posted on 04/17/2003 10:44:15 PM PDT by Illbay
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To: kattracks
Is this the one we heard about earlier, or is this ANOTHER brother?
3 posted on 04/17/2003 10:45:14 PM PDT by bonfire
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