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Saddam's Half Brother Caught
FOXNews/AP ^
| February 27, 2005
Posted on 02/27/2005 6:12:06 AM PST by nuconvert
Saddam's Half Brother Caught
February 27, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi security forces captured Saddam Hussein's (search) half brother and former adviser on Sunday, government officials said, dealing a blow to an insurgency that some Iraqi officials claim the much-sought fugitive was helping organize and fund.
Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan (search) was No. 36 on the list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis released by U.S. authorities after American troops invaded Iraq in March 2003, and among a recent group of 29 most-wanted supporters of insurgents in Iraq. The U.S. had a $1 million bounty on his head.
Officials in Allawi's office, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed al-Hassan's capture but gave no details on where it took place or when. Capt. Ahmed Ismael, an intelligence officer in the Interior Ministry (search), said Sabawi was detained early Sunday.
In a statement, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's (search) office said the arrest "shows the determination of the Iraqi government to chase and detain all criminals who carried out massacres and whose hands are stained with the blood of the Iraqi people, then bring them to justice to face the right punishment."
It was not immediately known whether U.S. troops played any role in the arrest. The U.S. military had no comment.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 55mostwanted; 6ofdiamonds; alhassan; captured; iraq; sabawialhassan; sabawiibrahimalhasan; saddam; saddamfamily; saddamhussein; shiite; sixofdiamonds; southwestasia; syria; wot
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posted on
02/27/2005 6:12:07 AM PST
by
nuconvert
To: nuconvert
Well, I guess half a brother is better than no brother at all.
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posted on
02/27/2005 6:12:32 AM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Illegal Aliens "Those Wonderful People" in Jail Now Are $1.4 Billion A Year For California Taxpayers)
To: nuconvert
I wonder which stinking, dank, rat-infested spiderhole they found HIM in??
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posted on
02/27/2005 6:14:05 AM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Illegal Aliens "Those Wonderful People" in Jail Now Are $1.4 Billion A Year For California Taxpayers)
To: AmericanInTokyo
We should know more later .....
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posted on
02/27/2005 6:15:50 AM PST
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
To: nuconvert
5
posted on
02/27/2005 6:18:39 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: nuconvert
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posted on
02/27/2005 6:20:00 AM PST
by
Coop
(In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Well, I guess half a brother is better than no brother at all. In Saddam's world, half a brother is the result of feeding him through the plastics recycler.
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posted on
02/27/2005 6:22:00 AM PST
by
theDentist
(The Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
To: BenLurkin
Good gracious. He looks like an Egyptian movie actor from the early 1950s.
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posted on
02/27/2005 6:22:11 AM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Illegal Aliens "Those Wonderful People" in Jail Now Are $1.4 Billion A Year For California Taxpayers)
To: theDentist
Yep, maybe he fed him into the wood chipper, and had a change of heart mid-stream.
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posted on
02/27/2005 6:22:44 AM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Illegal Aliens "Those Wonderful People" in Jail Now Are $1.4 Billion A Year For California Taxpayers)
To: nuconvert
This news was planted bny Karl Rove and we know that this is not really Saddam's Half Brother, but an employee of Haliburton, who is operating on Cheney's orders!!! Yeah that is what the Democrats will be saying.....LMAO.
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posted on
02/27/2005 6:24:47 AM PST
by
Trueblackman
(Terrorism and Liberalism never sleep and neither do I)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Guess he was smart enough not to let any recent photos get around. Maybe use DNA for a positive ID?
To: Coop
12
posted on
02/27/2005 6:26:28 AM PST
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
To: BenLurkin
They caght Freddy Mercury?
13
posted on
02/27/2005 6:42:16 AM PST
by
yooling
(Screw diversity! Celebrate excellence!)
To: yooling
14
posted on
02/27/2005 6:54:22 AM PST
by
rabidralph
(Keep abortion legal. Celebrities hate paying child support as much as you do.)
To: BenLurkin
They captured Freddie Mercury?!?!?!
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posted on
02/27/2005 6:56:39 AM PST
by
rintense
To: yooling; F14 Pilot
re: comment in #5
LoL. Does kinda look like him!
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posted on
02/27/2005 6:56:59 AM PST
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
To: F14 Pilot
Sorry
re: comment in #13.
I was laughing
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posted on
02/27/2005 6:58:38 AM PST
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
To: AmericanInTokyo
To: rintense; nuconvert
It explains so much . . . but then raises so many more questions.
To: yooling
That would be Caught ....still asleep I guess
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posted on
02/27/2005 7:40:47 AM PST
by
yooling
(Screw diversity! Celebrate excellence!)
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