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The execution of the two co-defendants of Saddam Hussein deferred to Sunday BAGHDAD - the execution envisaged Thursday of the two co-defendants of Saddam Hussein, his half-brother Barzan Al-Tikriti, former chief of the Iraqi secret service and the former president of the revolutionary tribunal Awad Al-Bandar, was deferred to Sunday, according to a close relation of Iraqi the Prime Minister. "It is deferred to Sunday", indicated to AFP Baha Al-Araji, appointed Shiite close to the Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki. "Because of the international pressures and within the Arab world, the execution of Barzan Al-Tikriti and Awad Al-Bandar were deferred...

ANOTHER FORMER HIGH-RANKING IRAQI OFFICIAL CONFIRMS WMD WENT TO SYRIA The Changed Baathist: Interview with Ali Ibrahim Al-Tikriti By: Ryan Mauro TDCAnalyst@aol.com Ali Ibrahim al-Tikriti was a southern regional commander for Saddam Hussein’s Fedayeen militia in the late 1980s and a personal friend of the dictator. Units under his command dealt with chemical and biological weapons. He was known as the “Butcher of Basra” due to his campaigns and defected shortly before the Gulf War in 1991. This interview aims to gain some insight into the current situation in Iraq. RM: Is there a single incident that you can point...

'Dr Germ' and 'Mrs Anthrax' released from Iraqi jail 19/12/2005 - 12:48:51 Notorious Saddam-Hussein-era officials have been released from jail in Iraq and some have already left the country, an Iraqi lawyer said today. A legal official in Baghdad said between 24 and 25 top former officials in Saddam Hussein’s government have been freed, including Rihab Taha, known as Dr Germ, and Huda Salih Ammash, known as as Mrs Anthrax. The Iraqi lawyer, Badee Izzat Aref, said some of those released were his clients. “The release was an American-Iraqi decision and in line with an Iraqi government ruling made in...

RIYADH, Nov 2 (KUNA) -- The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud sent a letter to US President George W. Bush on releasing ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barazan Al-Tikriti, a Saudi daily said Wednesday. Al-Riyadh daily said the letter was of a humanitarian nature and called for showing understanding for the health conditions of Tikriti, who is suffering from cancer. The newspaper noted the US President was to look into the Saudi King's request.

CAIRO, Egypt Saddam Hussein's half-brother and former intelligence chief is begging to be let out of jail so his spinal cancer can be treated. The man (Barazan Ibrahim al-Tikriti) is standing trial with Saddam on charges of crimes against humanity. A letter printed in a Saudi-owned paper quotes him as saying there's no treatment available for him in prison, and that he had nothing to do with Saddam's rule. He's calling on President Bush and other world leaders for help.

Nicole Martin shows a confidential handwritten memo found in the rubble of the looted Iraqi foreign ministry to the man who used to arrange the dictator's scheduleSaddam Hussein's former head of protocol said yesterday that the document found by The Daily Telegraph saying that George Galloway received substantial payments from the Iraqi regime was "100 per cent genuine". Haitham Rashid Wihaib, who fled to Britain with his family eight years ago after death threats, said he had no doubt that the handwritten confidential memorandum addressed to the dictator's office apparently detailing how the Labour MP benefited from Iraq's oil sales...

From leaky roofs to secret agents: how the files I found in Iraq's looted foreign ministry cast light on the paranoid world of Saddam Hussein How many Iraqi officials does it take to fix the leaky roof of a diplomat's house in London? How long does a skilled translator need to convert one of George Galloway's parliamentary speeches into Arabic? In almost 1, 000 pages of Arabic prose, each stamped with the Eagle crest of Iraq, the files found inside the foreign ministry in Baghdad cast a somewhat surreal light on the questions that turned the bureaucratic wheels of Saddam...

U.S. drops top Iraqi general from most-wanted list SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COMThursday, April 24, 2003 The United States has left out the commander of President Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard from a list of most wanted Iraqis. Gen. Maher Sufian does not appear on the U.S. list of 55 most wanted Iraqis. Sufian was commander of the six Republican Guard units responsible for the defense of Baghdad. The absence of Sufian from the U.S. list has sparked claims that the Republican Guard commander struck a deal with the U.S.-led coalition. Arab diplomatic sources said Sufian is believed to have...

BAGHDAD, June 30 (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein, who brutalised Iraqis for decades, said good morning and sought to ask some questions when the United States handed him over to Iraqi justice on Wednesday, a witness said. Saddam, who was captured hiding near his hometown of Tikrit in December, looked in good health as he appeared before an Iraqi judge in the first legal step towards a trial for the cruelties he inflicted during his 35 years of power. "Saddam said good morning and asked if he could ask some questions," Salem Chalabi, a lawyer leading the work of a tribunal...

Unofficial Iraqi sources told Al Bawaba Wednesday that Abed Hamoud al-Tikriti, presidential secretary of former leader Saddam Hussein died two days ago while in US custody.

LONDON, DECEMBER 14: The mastermind of the September 2001 attacks in the US, Mohammad Atta, was trained in Baghdad by a Palestinian terrorist at the instance of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, a media report said today. Atta, who was trained by Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal, visited Baghdad just weeks before the terror attack, The Sunday Telegraph reported. The details of Atta’s visit are contained in a secret memo, written to Hussein by the former head of Iraqi intelligence service Tahir Jalil Habbush Al-Tikriti, it said. The handwritten memo, a copy of which has been obtained by the daily is...

Case ClosedFrom the November 24, 2003 issue: The U.S. government's secret memo detailing cooperation between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.by Stephen F. Hayes 11/24/2003, Volume 009, Issue 11     Email a Friend   Respond to this article OSAMA BIN LADEN and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, logistical support for terrorist attacks, al Qaeda training camps and safe haven in Iraq, and Iraqi financial support for al Qaeda--perhaps even for Mohamed Atta--according to a top secret U.S. government memorandum obtained by...

...The night before his arrest, Mahmud, who once shuttled among presidential palaces, had slept on the floor in the living room. He was reduced to eating lumpy yogurt to calm his stomach, and complained of asthma, Awad said. "He just gave up when the Americans came," she added. U.S. military officers said that Mahmud, the fourth most sought member of the former government after Hussein and his two sons, appeared stressed and alone, reduced to asking favors of locals, such as a bed for the night. He did not have his own transportation, money or weapons "of any significance," according...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American forces seized another member of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s toppled Iraqi government in a raid southeast of Tikrit, the U.S. military said on Friday. The U.S. Central Command said in a release from Baghdad that Adil Abdallah Mahdi al-Duri al-Tikriti was taken into custody on Thursday in the operation in Ad Dawr, near Saddam's hometown of Tikrit. Defense officials at the Pentagon (news - web sites) said a few generals from Saddam's military were also caught. Mahdi is on the U.S. list of the top 55 wanted members of Saddam's government. He is designated...

THE members of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle seem little different from many criminals under interrogation. Whatever the crime, they say, someone else did it. So it was last week with Walid Hamid Tawfiq al-Tikriti, the eight of clubs in America’s playing cards depicting the most wanted Iraqis. He was governor of Basra until the British captured the city, a former chief of operations for the Special Security Organisation (SSO), one of the most feared forces in Iraq, and a former commander of the Special Republican Guard, Saddam’s praetorian guard. Bad things might have happened under Saddam, but as far as...

A CAPTURED archive of 500,000 cardboard files meticulously compiled by Saddam Hussein’s ruling Ba’ath party has revealed some of the secrets of a regime so obsessed with loyalty that an officer’s support for the execution of his brother merited promotion. The archive contains a folder for every officer who served in the Iraqi military. Each military unit had a party representative who recorded and evaluated minute details of every officer’s career and personal life. The dusty files are a far more accurate testimony of Saddam’s reign than the overblown monuments he wanted to be remembered by. They show he ruled...

<p>American forces in Iraq have captured a former spymaster believed to know about Iraqi espionage in the United States. In Baghdad, U.S. officials warned the self-proclaimed "mayor" not to arm his followers and conferred Thursday with civic leaders on how to restore order.</p>

AS THE hunt for Saddam Hussein’s fallen lieutenants continued, officials from the United States last night claimed a further four scalps from Iraq’s feared intelligence hierarchy. Most senior to fall into the hands of coalition forces was Muzahim Sa’b Hassan al-Tikriti, who headed Iraq’s air defences under Saddam. He was number ten on the US list of the top 55 most wanted officials from Saddam’s regime currently being hunted by both US and UK special forces, including SAS troops. "They’re collapsing like a house of cards," said Lieutenant Colonel Tom Kurasiewicz, a spokesman for the Pentagon. Another official said US...

WASHINGTON (AP) - American forces in Iraq captured four top officials of Saddam Hussein's former government Wednesday, including the air defense force commander and the former head of military intelligence. The highest-ranking official in the group is Muzahim Sa'b Hassan al-Tikriti, who headed Iraq's air defenses under Saddam. He was No. 10 on the U.S. list of the top 55 most wanted officials from Saddam's regime. Gen. Zuhayr Talib Abd al-Sattar al-Naqib, the former head of the Directorate of Military Intelligence, surrendered to U.S. troops Wednesday, a senior Pentagon official said. The directorate monitored the loyalty of Iraq's regular army,...

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THE CAPTURE of two of the coalition’s most wanted members of the former Iraqi regime could lead to the capture of Saddam Hussein, say opposition groups. Jamal Mustafa Sultan Abdullah al-Tikriti, Saddam’s son-in-law, who surrendered in Damascus last night, was one of the Iraqi leader’s trusted inner circle. Married to Hala, Saddam’s younger daughter, he is listed as the nine of clubs in a pack of cards handed out to United States troops showing the 55 most wanted figures of Saddam’s regime. The former Iraqi dictator is the ace of spades. Moments after Jamal gave himself up, US Central Command...

Baghdad, Iraq Press, April 19, 2003 – Shortly before the fall of Baghdad to U.S. marines on April 9, Saddam Hussein's younger brother, Qusay, looted millions of dollars from the Iraqi Central Bank, a bank employee told Iraq Press. The employee refused to give her name for fear of being implicated in the theft, but said she saw Qusay and a business partner of his, Hasan Habib al-Mawsawi, entering the bank on April 8, just one day before U.S. marines made their way into the heart of the Iraqi capital. "Qusay and Mawsawi were accompanied by a gang of some...

THE half-brother of Saddam Hussein captured by special forces on Thursday has disclosed valuable information about the former regime, American military sources said yesterday. Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti, who worked closely with Saddam for more than two decades, was said to have been instantly co-operative. His response has raised hopes that he will lead troops to the fugitive Iraqi leader or provide details of weapons systems. The reports came as a fourth member of the regime was seized. Samir al-Aziz al-Najim, regional chairman of the Baath party in east Baghdad, was handed to US troops by Iraqi Kurds near Mosul....

Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al Tikriti, Saddam Hussein's half brother, was one of 55 senior Iraqi figures wanted by the United States. (AP Photo/Department of Defense)Saddam’s Half Brother Talking to U.S. Captors; Federal Agents Head to Iraq B A G H D A D, Iraq, April 18 — Saddam Hussein's half brother, the one-time head of Iraq's feared intelligence agency, is talking to his U.S. captors, ABCNEWS has learned. U.S. officials hope to learn the whereabouts of senior regime figures, as well as information about suspected weapons programs, from Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al Tikriti, sources said. His capture in Baghdad was...

<p>Presumed dead.</p> <p>April 11, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - Allied bombers last night went after Saddam Hussein's half-brother - pulverizing an intelligence compound near Baghdad that had been under surveillance for days.</p> <p>Intelligence officials told The Post they believed Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti was inside and had been killed in the bombing raid.</p>

MSNBC just announced that Saddam's half-brother was killed with multiple JDAMs.

New intelligence suggests a series of Iraqi missiles have mis-fired and hit residential areas of Baghdad, Downing Street says. The Prime Minister's spokesman said information had been received which indicated Iraq's air defence commander has been sacked due to the poor performance of missile systems in Baghdad. He said: "A large number of surface-to-air missiles have been malfunctioning and many have failed to hit their targets and have fallen back onto Baghdad before exploding. "Civil defence workers have been instructed to remove Iraqi missile fragments which fell on residential areas before journalists arrive on the scene." The spokesman stopped short...

March 17, 2003 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has put his half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti, an ex-envoy to the United Nations in Geneva, under house arrest after he refused to pledge support for Saddam's powerful son, Qusay, in the event he succeeds the Iraqi leader, a newspaper claimed yesterday. Quoting unspecified Iraqi sources, Al-Rai Al-Aam said the row between Saddam and Barzan erupted during a March 5 meeting at which the Iraqi leader quizzed his half-brother, who had good relations with the United Arab Emirates in the past, about a UAE proposal that Saddam step down to avert a US-led war aimed...

Years of terror mean president has nowhere to turn for advice Saddam Hussein knows it can be lonely at the top. In the grip of a crisis he turns - like any other leader - to his inner circle for advice. But at the moment when he needs them most, President Saddam's choice of confidants is limited. Decades of dictatorial rule have left him with an inner circle where no one is totally trusted and the penalty for giving sound but unpalatable advice is death. In the official photographs of cabinet meetings only one person looks at the camera: Saddam...

US military plans lightning strikes Press Trust of India WASHINGTON, March 16. — US commanders poised to attack Iraq have “innovative, daring and simultaneous” plans to launch lightning strikes from Kuwait and other bases to to storm into Baghdad in not more than three or four days. “The campaign will move very fast,” a senior US air force officer said. The speed of the attacks is intended to sap the Iraqi military’s ability to coordinate its response, Washington Post today reported quoting Pentagon insiders. But aspects like dangers of “friendly fire”, dependence on a 350-mile supply line, and the heavy...

A SENIOR Baghdad official who feared for his life after helping to hide Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons was executed after he tried to flee the country, Iraqi sources revealed last week. Khalis Muhsin al-Tikriti, 35, had been working in the scientific department of the president’s office under the authority of the Special Security Organisation (SSO), headed by Qusay Hussein, Saddam’s younger son and political heir. Al-Tikriti, an engineer, had supervised an operation to bury a significant quantity of Saddam’s chemical weapons before United Nations weapons inspectors arrived last November. Some weapons were buried near the river Tigris in the Baji...