Bush's Closest Iraqi Ally

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Author: amber
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:01

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__Bush's Closest Iraqi Ally Arrested for War Crimes - Including Killing
Thousands of Kurds with Biochemical Weapons

From Times Online: "Danish police arrested last night an exiled Iraqi
general tipped as a possible replacement for President Saddam Hussein.
He faces charges that he was responsible for killing thousands of Kurds
in a chemical weapons attack 14 years ago. The arrest of General Nizar
Khazraji, the former Iraqi Chief-of-Staff and the most senior officer
to defect from Baghdad, appeared to wreck any chances that he might lead
a mutiny in the Armed Forces and help to topple Saddam's regime. He has
been under investigation in the North Sea town of Soroe for the past
year, after he was reported to the Danish authorities by a Kurdish
immigrant. Reports from Copenhagen last night said that the police had
charged him with war crimes, violating the Geneva conventions and other
human
rights abuses....Iraqi opposition sources said last night that his
arrest was a serious blow to their efforts to build a credible alternative
to Saddam's regime."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-486536,00.html

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