Iraq Arrests Saddam's Nephew in Baghdad

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[Keith59]

CAIRO, Egypt - Iraqi police on Wednesday arrested Saddam Hussein's nephew in Baghdad, charging that he served as the top financier of Iraq's rampant insurgency, senior Iraqi security officials said. Yasir Sabhawi Ibrahim, son of Saddam's half brother Sabhawi Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti, was arrested in a Baghdad apartment, several days after Syrian authorities forced him to return to Iraq, the officials told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Cairo. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to deal with the media.

[Jet Jaguar]

http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/terroristscorecard/IraqDeck.html

[injin]

we need to start doing these guys when we catch them, to heck with trials .
who needs a bunch of high level terror criminals incarcerated for years attracting attempts to bust them out?
just get rid of them when they catch them , plain and simple.

[ZOTnot]

Well, you're correct; nothing in 'these parts' about getting to go in to find the WMD's : what is everyone talking about? What did I miss? Did we find them, or were we given permission to look for them?

[TWohlford]

"we need to start doing these guys when we catch them, to heck with trials"

And not show the world, in a convicing fashion, what evil they brought into the world?

And stoop to the same barbaric standards that Saddam used as he massacred hundreds of thousands of his own people in response to whatever threat?

I thought conservatives believed in the Rule of Law....

[BigTom85]

Yep, exactly.. One more of these despots in jail!

[Democracy In Iraq]

Overheard at DU:

Curses! Another one of the good guys unjustly arrested by a quisling!

[no dems]

"Think Condi has Syria a little nervous?"

"I think Condi has a lot of people nervous!!!!!"

O.K. guys. I've been a Hurricane Rita evacuee for 3 weeks with no cable or satellite TV or 'puter. Whassup with my girl Condi and the Syrians? Fill me in. BTW, "Rice for Prez in '08."

[Prime Choice]

Well...looks like squeezing Syria's cojones paid off after all...

[Democracy In Iraq]

Right off the bat, the headline struck me as clumsy:

Iraq Arrests Saddam's Nephew in Baghdad

...as if "Iraq" is a person. It should have been something like:

Iraqi Police Arrest Saddam's Nephew in Baghdad

...and I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that the headline specifically avoided the term "Iraqi Police" in order to avoid acknowledging the fact that Iraq is quickly ascending into a self-governing state.

Funny, I thought denial was in Egypt.

[Right Wing Assault]

Exactly! And none of it will be given the full attention it deserves by the MSM.

We could find 50,000 chemical weapons and 50 nukes in Syria, bring them over and place them in the street in front of CBS, and the story would read: "Military again claims Iraq had WMDs". With video of a reporter babe standing in front of the UN telling the same story they told 3 years ago. No video of the pile of WMDs. "And in other news, traffic near the CBS building was snarled for hours today by debris in the road."

[jveritas]

Great news.

[Keith59]

Kinda reminds me of an old saying I heard often in the military..."Doing a good job around here is like wetting yourself in a wetsuit...no one notices" But I always added "Rather they notice or not it still feels good to have the job done!" Iraqi's are moving to self rule and it feels good for them and for us.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

And of course getting the job done and peeing in your wet suit both give you a warm feeling...

[Hoosier-Daddy]

And of course getting the job done and peeing in your wet suit both give you a warm feeling...

[lp boonie]

Condi stated to foreign press the US would not rule out the use of force on Syria or Iran. Very little play in the US press but it says volumes in the diplomatic world. Volumes.

[hsalaw]

Good point. The old media seems determined to avoid any reference to the fact that the Iraqis are becoming heavily invested in their own country - for example, the lack of any big headlines on the millions voting on their constitution. The MSM is a disgrace.

[Southack]

"I guess Baby Assad is a tad worried."

No doubt.

Boy junior Assad clearly fears us more than Al Qaeda's measly 13 attacks in all of Iraq on election day.

Odd that Syria didn't shoot Saddam's nephew, though. Yeah, they turned him in...but Boy Assad just shot his own #2 man this month...so why would an Iraqi foreigner be treated better than Syria's #2 man??

Which is to say, we may learn later that just as the Syrian Kurdish opposition group made that capture of the Iraqi big-wig inside Syria earlier this year, that so too it may have been Syria's opposition Kurds who helped chase Saddam's nephew down.

Lets wait and see.

The smart play by Syria at this point would be to play along with the U.S. 100% for the next 3.5 years. They should be the new Pakistan. They should be more anti-terror than we are.

That would get them past having President Bush in office...probably sparing their regime from being obliterated by the U.S. military.

The wild-card, however, is that Boy Assad has less than half the brains of his dad. His dad was easy to predict...simply guess that Syria would forever do the smartest possible thing and you'd nail it more often than not. His son, however, leaves much to be desired. He's probably advised by idiots and doesn't know enough to know how to improve his own advice.

Does Boy Assad know enough to play along for the next 3.5 years? With his #2 man dead, his advice won't get any worse...but will it get better??

Pause...

On another train of thought, this nephew's capture will actually mean something. Consider, if this nephew was being **harbored** by Boy Assad in 2003 and 2004, that he is going to spill the beans and rat out Boy Assad now that he's been betrayed by the Syrians.

As the #1 Al Qaeda/Ba'athist financier in Syria, this nephew would know if Syria is or was physically protecting other Al Qaeda or Iraqi Ba'athists.

And this nephew isn't dead. Syria has helped us capture him, yes?! Now we get to interview him.

So if Syria knows that they are going to be ratted out...they'd need a **deal** to forgive past trespasses in order to hand him over to us.

Which is to say, no Al Qaeda or Iraqi Ba'athist would be safe from being betrayed by Syria at this point in time. If Syria is turning in a Player, a player who knows about all of the others, then all of the other Players are in jeopardy.

I mean, if you were the #3 financier for Al Qaeda and you were being harbored by Syria, would **you** trust Boy Assad after he just turned in your #1 man?!

No way. You'd see that betrayal and bolt.

And consider Syria's position. No way they can turn in one guy who is "in the know" without a deal. That nephew is going to rat out the guys who betrayed him.

Pause.

This leaves two likely possibilities:

1. Syria has a deal (which likely includes ratting everyone out who has been harbored), or
2. Syria's Kurdish opposition got the nephew...in which case we're about to know a great deal about Boy Assad's game (because we'll make the nephew know that he was betrayed by Boy Assad himself).

[injin]

you have to be kidding me ....

we are at war , we need to kill the enemy

Saddam is the enemy ,and he doesn't deserve spit.

[Dog]

See post 37..

[dynoman]

Another source.