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  • U.S.: Iraqi Police Arrested Finance Chief

    04/19/2003 6:16:29 PM PDT · by Indy Pendance · 5 replies · 161+ views
    AP ^ | April 19, 2003 | ELLEN KNICKMEYER
    BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The country's newly revived police force was credited Saturday with nabbing Saddam Hussein's finance minister - the first time authorities of the new Iraq arrested a top official of the old regime. American forces touted the arrest of Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-Azzawi as an example of the Iraqi-U.S. cooperation for which they are striving.News of the arrest came as Marines started turning Iraq's capital over to the Army, even as Baghdad still struggled to regain electricity - and with it, telephones and water-purification systems.But looting subsided enough to allow 50 U.N. trucks carrying flour to reach...
  • U.S. Says Iraqi Police Made Latest Arrest

    04/19/2003 3:50:10 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 10 replies · 148+ views
    Yahoo! News ^ | 4/19/03 | Ellen Knickmeyer - AP
    U.S. Says Iraqi Police Made Latest Arrest 1 hour, 16 minutes ago Add Top Stories - AP to My Yahoo! By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - The country's newly revived police force was credited Saturday with nabbing Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s finance minister — the first time authorities of the new Iraq (news - web sites) arrested a top official of the old regime. American forces touted the arrest of Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-Azzawi as an example of the Iraqi-U.S. cooperation for which they are striving. News of the arrest came as Marines started...
  • Report: Iraqi Finance Minister Captured in Baghdad

    04/19/2003 12:11:50 AM PDT · by Uncle Kermie · 27 replies · 318+ views
    Fox News ^ | 4/19/2003 | Fox News
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  • Iraqi finance minister captured (Hikmat Ibrahim al-Azzawi was also deputy prime minister)

    04/19/2003 3:56:38 AM PDT · by hotpotato · 1 replies · 175+ views
    BBC ^ | April 19, 2003
    Iraqi police in Baghdad have captured the country's former finance minister, Hikmat Ibrahim al-Azzawi, and handed him over to coalition forces, officials from US Central Command in Qatar said. Mr al-Azzawi, who was also a deputy prime minister, is number 45 the coalition forces' list of the 55 most wanted supporters of Saddam Hussein. He was also eight of diamonds in the notorious deck of cards handed out to US troops hunting Iraqi officials. Major Randi Steffy at Central Command said Mr al-Azzawi is now in the custody of US Marines.