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Iraqi informer's family is marked for death Nawaf al-Zaidan earned $30m by leading the US to Saddam's sons. Now local tribes have sworn revenge Rory McCarthy in Mosul Saturday January 24, 2004 The Guardian (UK) The spot where Nawaf al-Zaidan's mansion once stood is now empty. Bulldozers flattened the building, leaving a neat square of red earth, as if to erase the memory of what happened here six months ago. Scrawled nearby in red paint are the words: "Houses and land for sale." On July 22 last year, Mr Zaidan left his home in the al-Bareed suburb of the northern...

The four-storey house in Mosul where Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, made their last stand has been demolished to prevent it being made into a shrine by Iraqis nostalgic for their father's rule. But before the bulldozers moved in, the site was picked over by American souvenir hunters.Four armed CIA men in plain clothes were prowling through the rubble in Mosul's Chalalat Street last week. One, a bald man with an automatic rifle slung over his shoulders who said he was from Colorado, admitted he was collecting souvenirs for himself and his colleagues. He and other armed Americans were...

Hussein 'traitor' now a marked man Mosul, Iraq - The tribal chief who owned the mansion where Saddam Hussein's sons died has been warned that revenge is on the way. Whether they loved Saddam's regime or not, many residents of the northern city of Mosul view Nawaf al-Zaidan, the suspected informant, as a traitor for the sake of a $30-million (about R220-million) price tag on Uday and Qusay's heads. "He's a traitor to his country and religion," said a shopkeeper across from Al-Zaidan's gutted home, destroyed in the long but one-sided battle between Saddam's sons and US forces on Tuesday....

Baghdad: The identity of the informer who led US forces to Saddam Hussein's sons this week remains a mystery, but one man remains the odds-on favourite to pick up the 30-million-dollar reward. Nawaf al-Zaidan, the tribal chief who owned the mansion where Uday and Qusay died in a blistering gunbattle in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, has been named by neighbours and reports as the man now in US protective custody. US authorities have refused to name the informer whose information led to Uday and Qusay, among the most feared members of the former regime, for fear of...

The man believed to have tipped off the U.S. about the hideout of Saddam's sons is likely to be paid all or most of the £20million reward, American officials said last night. Nawaf Al Zaidan, 47, his wife, three daughters and two sons will also be given a new life in the U.S. They have been put in ' protective custody' in Iraq and are believed to be living at a U.S. base in the south of the country. Under the terms of the reward, promised for information leading to the capture or killing of Uday and Qusay Hussein, the...