Posted on 05/03/2004 9:55:14 PM PDT by Pikamax
Top former regime’s officials said killed in attack on prison
Baghdad, Iraq Press, May 3, 2004 – At least one of former leader Saddam Hussein’s top aides was killed in last month’s mortar attack at a detention center near Baghdad.
The April mortar assault on the Baghdad Confinement Facility in Abu Ghraib has left 25 inmates dead, according to the US military.
Now it has emerged that among the dead was General Sinan Abduljabbar Jawad, one of Saddam Hussein’s lieutenants.
Jawad’s relatives and family say they received his corpse four days after the assault.
Jawad, who sustained fatal head injuries, was in the wing where several other Iraqi leaders are detained by US troops.
Abu Ghraib, one of former regime’s most notorious prisons, was associated with torture and summary executions of inmates.
Recently, it sprang to international spotlight again; but this time to highlight atrocities by US troops against Iraqi inmates.
Unconfirmed reports say that other senior former leaders were either injured or killed in the April attack.
Local newspapers have hinted that former Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan, currently in US custody at Abu Ghraib was probably killed in the attack.
Other former leaders reported to have either been injured or killed include Gen. Sultan Hashem, the defense minister and Gen. Abduljabbar al-Shanshal, state minister for military affairs.
Atrocities? I think we had better get those trials of Saddam and his minions started so people remember what atrocities really are.
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