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Iraqi colonel arrested as a rebel spy By Aqeel Hussein in Samarra (Filed: 26/09/2004) A colonel in the Iraqi National Guard has been arrested on charges of aiding insurgents by passing on tip-offs about planned raids on resistance safe houses. Samir Al-daraji led a unit of Iraqi troops that carried out raids around the rebel-held city of Samarra, north west of Baghdad. American troops arrested him last week after a series of operations went wrong and troops attacked empty houses that had previously been identified as resistance command centres. "It is true that Col Al-daraji gave information to the resistance,"...

Baghdad (Special to Iraq Press, Mar. 2, 2003 – A senior Iraqi scientist who developed the controversial al-Samoud missile system has been killed in Baghdad. Mohammed Saaeed al-Daraji was murdered nearly 24 hours after leaving a presidential complex where he held discussions with senior officials on what he was supposed to say if interviewed by U.N. weapons inspectors. Al-Daraji was instrumental in building the al-Samoud 11 missile, which has been test-fired beyond the 150-kilometer (93 mile) limit for Iraqi missiles the United Nations imposed after the 1991 Gulf War. Iraq has agreed to start destroying the missiles by Saturday –...