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Former Iraqi Spy Chief Hijazi in U.S. Custody (another big fish caught)
Reuters ^
Posted on 04/25/2003 5:28:20 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Former Iraqi Spy Chief Hijazi in U.S. Custody Fri April 25, 2003 08:17 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Iraqi spy chief Farouk Hijazi, accused of plotting to assassinate former President George Bush in the 1990s, was detained near Iraq's border with Syria, said a U.S. official on Friday. "He (Hijazi) is in custody and was picked up in Iraq near the Syrian border yesterday (Thursday) Iraqi time. I have no more details about the circumstances (of his arrest)," the U.S. official, who requested anonymity, told Reuters.
Last week, Washington said it believed Hijazi was in Syria amid mounting accusations that Damascus was harboring members of Saddam Hussein's government who had fled America's invasion of Iraq.
Earlier this week, in a sign that tensions were easing between the U.S. and Syria, President Bush said Syria had taken some measures to seal its border. It was unclear whether Hijazi was captured with some Syrian help.
Hijazi was director of external operations for the Iraqi intelligence agency in the mid-1990s, when the agency allegedly launched a failed attempt to assassinate the first President George Bush during a visit to Kuwait.
Hijazi subsequently served as Iraq's ambassador to Tunisia and Turkey.
Hijazi is among several high-level Iraqis taken into U.S. custody over recent days. Also on Thursday, Tareq Aziz, Iraq's former deputy prime minister and one of the best-known figures in Saddam Hussein's old guard, surrendered to U.S. forces.
U.S. Central Command in Qatar and officials in Washington said that Aziz gave himself up to U.S. troops in Baghdad and was "under coalition control."
TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaedaandiraq; captured; hijazi; intelligence; iraqifreedom; mostwanted
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To: w8mm
According to Ollie's Washington Times article of 04/20/03, Abu Nidal has been dead for a whileHow would you tell? Nidal always stank like that...
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posted on
04/25/2003 10:36:01 AM PDT
by
Wil H
To: FL_engineer
Thanx I was going to ask the total ;)
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posted on
04/25/2003 10:48:13 AM PDT
by
JustPiper
(Libs are oxymorons, just ask Chicago!!!)
To: FL_engineer
Thanks for keeping us updated with the list of cards. I hope that we have the whole deck soon. They seem to be dropping like flies recently.
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posted on
04/25/2003 11:19:31 AM PDT
by
azGOPgal
(If he (Saddam) is alive, I would suggest he not pop his head up.)
To: w8mm; Paradox; hchutch; Aggie Mama
My source for Abu Nidal was Ollie's 4/16 online video report on foxnews.
I replayed it several times back then, to make sure I got his report correct.
But since he appears to be clarifying that story in print on 4/20,
it may be he mis-spoke or was widely mis-understood.
I will review it tonight and make corrections if necess.
...FLE
To: FL_engineer
bump
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posted on
04/25/2003 12:17:39 PM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: FL_engineer
The UN, France, Russia, China, and Germany are all milling about smartly each knowing that the other has reeled it out and stomped all over it. Everybodys' dirty laundry is blowing around in the streets of Baghdad and the Coalition of The Willing is picking it all up!
EXCELLENT
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posted on
04/25/2003 12:22:56 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(GOD....Guns.....& Guts -- It takes all three to be FREE)
To: sarasota
Sheesh. They're dropping like flies.
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posted on
04/25/2003 12:24:01 PM PDT
by
RobRoy
To: sarasota
It wouldnt suprise me at all to find selected Saddamits roaming aimlessly in the desert near the Syrian border, and annonimous phones calls with their exact coordinates. Bush put the stink eye on Syria real bad.
He He
This is the most fun I've had in a long time!!
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posted on
04/25/2003 12:26:57 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(GOD....Guns.....& Guts -- It takes all three to be FREE)
To: FL_engineer
But since he appears to be clarifying that story in print on 4/20, it may be he mis-spoke or was widely mis-understood.Good idea -- we wouldn't want to start another urban legend about Ollie (like his supposed fingering of Bin Laden as the terrorist who threatened to kill him in 1986).
Nice work on the chart!
To: FL_engineer
Thanks for the ping.
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posted on
04/25/2003 1:05:40 PM PDT
by
sistergoldenhair
(Don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.)
To: FL_engineer
Thanks so much for doing this. It's always a "keeper".
To: Sub-Driver
Also on Thursday, Tareq Aziz, Iraq's former deputy prime minister and one of the best-known figures in Saddam Hussein's old guard, surrendered to U.S. forces. Sir SuziQ told me he had heard that Tariq Aziz (real name Michael Yuhanna) had sent an 'envoy' to the Americans to negotiate the terms of his surrender. The Americans said "No terms; surrender, or we come and get you".
Yeah!
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posted on
04/25/2003 4:18:55 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: SuziQ
I think it was his son who approach us troops...mea culpa...
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