[piasa]

blast from the past- France, passports, and escaping Iraqis

The French government denied the charges, but a Syrian employee of the French embassy in Damascus claimed that eight Iraqi officials from the oil and finance ministries had been given passports in the middle of April [2003]. "The commercial section of the embassy received passports for eight Iraqi officials and members of their families," he said. He claimed that Paris also ordered that a passport issued for Tahir Jalil al-Habbush, a former head of Iraq's Mukhabarat intelligence service who is on America's wanted list, should be cancelled soon after it had arrived. It remains unclear whether al-Habbush is in Syria.

[Cindy]

Thanks for the ping/info piasa.


GOOGLE Search Term: "al-Habbush"
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22al-Habbush%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&filter=0

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Shermy]

For what it's worth, John Loftus has since claimed that Al Douri is the guest of some faction in Saudi Arabia.