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Nizar Khazraji, a prominent Iraqi general who defected to the West, was assassinated Monday on his way to attend a U.S.-called meeting of opposition groups in the southern city of Nassiriya. Khazraji was sometimes mentioned as a possible successor to Saddam Hussein. In February last year, London-based Arabic daily Al-Hayat quoted opposition sources in Syria as saying the US had chosen Khazraji to run Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam. The CIA was reported to have helped him escape to Kuwait from house arrest in Denmark, where prosecutors were investigating his alleged role in gas attacks on the Iraqi Kurds....

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...

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...

COPENHAGEN, March 22 (AFP) - Former Iraqi army chief Nizar al-Khazraji, who disappeared from his home in Denmark last week, was spirited away by CIA agents and taken to Saudi Arabia, a Danish newspaper said on Saturday. Khazraji, believed to be the highest ranking officer to have defected from Iraq and touted by US media as a possible successor to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, was reported missing from his address on March 17. Danish newspaper B.T. said the 64-year-old former general, who has been charged with war crimes for alleged chemical weapon attacks on Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s and...

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...