Saddam's half-brother detained
AFP, Baghdad
A half-brother of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, a former intelligence chief who figures on the US list of Iraq's most wanted, has been arrested, officials said yesterday. Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan was Saddam's advisor and intelligence chief, a key post in the old regime. No details were immediately available on the arrest but the government said it would make it a statement later Sunday. Two other half-brothers of Saddam, Barzan and Watban, are already being held at a US army-run jail near Baghdad and are set to be tried in the coming months Al-Hassan was one of about a dozen of the most wanted officials who have so far escaped arrest or death at the hands of American-led security forces.
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