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  • Iraqis: Captured ex-general funded insurgents

    02/06/2005 5:05:38 PM PST · by wagglebee · 15 replies · 1,075+ views
    CNN ^ | 2/6/05 | CNN
    BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi security forces arrested a former general in Saddam Hussein's military whom they accuse of financing insurgents, including the makers of roadside bombs used against U.S. troops, the country's interim government said Sunday. Khamis Masin Farhan al-Ugaydi, also known as Abu Sabaa, was a brigadier general in the Iraqi army during Saddam's regime, according to a statement from the interim government. The 51-year old Arab was captured December 20 in Beiji, north of the capital, after elements of the Iraqi national guard and other security forces acted on a tip from Iraqis. The government did not...