As reported in today's Seattle Post Intelligencer: In yet another example of political self-interest, Syria has, apparently, handed over Saddam Hussein's half brother, the "6 of diamonds" in the Iraqi deck o' cards, along with 29 other wanted Iraqi's from the former regime. Can WMD be far behind?
HHHhmmmm.... I wonder why now, all of a sudden, Syria has coughed these people up? You don't suppose it's because they want to move a few notches lower on the prospective target list, do you?
Sunday, February 27, 2005 · Last updated 10:54 a.m. PT
Syria hands Saddam's half-brother to Iraq
By PATRICK QUINN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
In this image made available by the U.S. Defense Department , Sabawi Ibrahim Hasan, a half brother of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, has been captured, officials in the Iraqi prime minister's office said Sunday Feb. 27, 2005. Hasan is No. 36 on the U.S. list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis. Officials in interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's office, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the capture but gave no details on where it took place or when. (AP Photo)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi officials said Sunday that Syrian authorities had captured Saddam Hussein's half-brother and 29 other officials of the deposed dictator's Baath Party in Syria and handed them over to Iraq in an apparent goodwill gesture.
The arrests dealt a blow to an insurgency that some Iraqi officials claim Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan was helping organize and fund from Syria. The U.S. military said two American soldiers were killed Sunday in an ambush in the capital.
Al-Hassan, a former Saddam adviser, was captured in Hasakah in northeastern Syria near the Iraqi border, two senior Iraqi officials told The Associated Press by telephone on condition of anonymity. Hasakah is about 30 miles from Iraq.
They added that al-Hassan was captured and handed over to Iraqi authorities along with 29 other members of Saddam's collapsed Baath Party, whose Syrian branch has been in power in Damascus since 1963.
HHHhmmmm.... I wonder why now, all of a sudden, Syria has coughed these people up? You don't suppose it's because they want to move a few notches lower on the prospective target list, do you?
Sunday, February 27, 2005 · Last updated 10:54 a.m. PT
Syria hands Saddam's half-brother to Iraq
By PATRICK QUINN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
In this image made available by the U.S. Defense Department , Sabawi Ibrahim Hasan, a half brother of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, has been captured, officials in the Iraqi prime minister's office said Sunday Feb. 27, 2005. Hasan is No. 36 on the U.S. list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis. Officials in interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's office, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the capture but gave no details on where it took place or when. (AP Photo)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi officials said Sunday that Syrian authorities had captured Saddam Hussein's half-brother and 29 other officials of the deposed dictator's Baath Party in Syria and handed them over to Iraq in an apparent goodwill gesture.
The arrests dealt a blow to an insurgency that some Iraqi officials claim Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan was helping organize and fund from Syria. The U.S. military said two American soldiers were killed Sunday in an ambush in the capital.
Al-Hassan, a former Saddam adviser, was captured in Hasakah in northeastern Syria near the Iraqi border, two senior Iraqi officials told The Associated Press by telephone on condition of anonymity. Hasakah is about 30 miles from Iraq.
They added that al-Hassan was captured and handed over to Iraqi authorities along with 29 other members of Saddam's collapsed Baath Party, whose Syrian branch has been in power in Damascus since 1963.
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