Posted on 10/19/2005 10:33:30 PM PDT by indianrightwinger
Iraqis Nab Alleged Top Terror Financier Wednesday, October 19, 2005
CAIRO, Egypt Iraqi police on Wednesday arrested Saddam Hussein's (search) nephew in Baghdad, charging that he served as the top financier of Iraq's (search) rampant insurgency, senior Iraqi security officials said.
Yasir Sabhawi Ibrahim (search), 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.
One of the officials, who works as a coordinator between Iraqi authorities and U.S. military intelligence, described the purported financier as the most dangerous man in the urgency. The other official, who is a senior member of the Iraqi Defense Ministry, said the arrest was a serious blow to terrorist networks.
Both officials said Syrian authorities "pushed" Ibrahim into Iraq but did not hand him over to authorities.
The Syrians were aware of his whereabouts in Baghdad and informed U.S. authorities, who then passed the information to Iraq security forces who carried out a "fast, easy" raid on the fugitive's apartment, the Defense Ministry official said.
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George Soros?
You just have to crush those "urgencies".
It's been a very bad week for the Saddam family. This will be further proof to the Liberals, however, that we are losing and must turn Iraq over to al Qaeda.
BTTT
The noose is tightening on the bad guys and their funding!
Hang 'em High ~ Bump!
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