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U.S. says no knowledge of missing Iraqi ex-general COPENHAGEN, April 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Denmark said on Thursday it knows nothing about the whereabouts of a former Iraqi army chief suspected of war crimes who disappeared from his Danish home last month. Nizar al-Khazraji, suspected of crimes against Kurds in the 1980s, vanished on March 17 despite being under a court order to remain in the country. He had been living in Denmark since 1999. In a letter to U.S. Ambassador Stuart Bernstein, Denmark's Justice Minister Lene Espersen asked on Wednesday for any information on his disappearance....

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. CIA abducted former Iraqi general from Denmark; tabloid report Deutsche Presse-Agentur March 22, 2003, Saturday   13:24 Central European Time Copenhagen Former Iraqi general Nizar al-Khazraji, who disappeared Monday while under house arrest in Denmark, was abducted to Saudi Arabia by CIA agents, the Danish tabloid B.T. reported Saturday. Al-Khazraji allegedly was spirited out of his Danish home, where he had been under house arrest since November. Four CIA agents had kidnapped the former army chief-of-staff, who had been living as a refugee...

Tehran, March 19, IRNA -- Former Iraqi army chief, Nizar al-Khazraji, who has escaped from Denmark in defiance of Swedish court ruling banning his movements for his part in war crimes has joined the US command council in Qatar, Iraqi opposition source said on Wednesday. He had told IRNA so far that the US has invited several opposition figures to join the command council to conduct attack on Iraq. Nizar al-Khazraji, suspected of crimes against Kurds in the late 1980s, is not allowed to leave Denmark. He has surrendered his passport and is required to report to police three times...

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq, March 17 — The highest-level officer to defect from Saddam Hussein’s army disappeared from his home in Denmark on Monday under mysterious circumstances, according to family members and a Danish state official. Gen. Nizar al-Khazraji, Saddam’s former army chief of staff, was seen by some as playing an important role in a post-war

DUBAI (AFP) - Exiled former Iraqi army chief Nizar al-Khazraji, who was reported missing in Denmark, is in Saudi Arabia, an Iraqi opposition source said. The London-based source, which spoke on condition of anonymity, said the report on Khazraji's whereabouts came from "someone very close" to him in Denmark, noting that the former army chief has "always had good ties with Riyadh." Khazraji, under house arrest in Denmark, went missing Monday with police suspecting that he might have fled the country or been kidnapped by Iraqi agents, according to reports from Copenhagen. Khazraji, believed to be the highest-ranking officer...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark March 17 — A former Iraqi general under house arrest while Danish prosecutors investigate his alleged role in gas attacks on Kurds has disappeared, his son said Monday.The circumstances around former Gen. Nizar al-Khazraji's disappearance were murky and few details were released. He had been under house arrest in his adopted country of Denmark since November.Prosecutor Birgitte Vestberg is investigating claims that al-Khazraji, a former Iraqi army chief of staff, was responsible for poison gas attacks in northern Iraq in 1988 that killed more than 5,000 Kurds.Al-Khazraji, 63, says Saddam Hussein, not he, controlled the chemical stockpiles, and...

Danish police have launched a manhunt after a former Iraqi army chief living under house arrest in Denmark disappeared. Nizar al-Khazraji has been held in the Danish city of Soroe since last year when an investigation was opened into allegations that he led the repression of Iraq's Kurds in the late 1980s. His disappearance as US-led military action against Iraq looms is likely to prompt fears among Danish authorities that he has been smuggled back into the Middle East, says our correspondent Malcolm Brabant. Despite the allegations against him, he has in the past been touted as a possible...