Saddam relative captured in Fallujah

[Khephra]

Saddam relative captured in Fallujah
By Simon Freeman, Times Online



A cousin of the deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has been captured in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah.

Ezzeddine al-Majid was arrested in the city last week, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi told the national assembly in Baghdad today.

Mr al-Majid, 44, who served as an officer in Saddam's Republican Guard, is accused of helping to organise and arm the insurgents as they carry out their campaign of violent disruption.

Mr Allawi announced that the uprising had been dealt a further blow with the killing of an aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terror leader whose group has been blamed for many bombings and the murder of hostages.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1403447,00.html

[SheepyMcSheepster]

1. surely they will now have peace in faluja!

[merwin]

2. Don't they require evidence?

Oh wait, Iraq is not a democracy yet. That comes on Jan 30.

I doubt they have any evidence that he was even involved in anything, other than his relation to Saddam

[DavidDvorkin]

4. It is illegal to be related to a head of state

whom we overthrew illegally.

That should be obvious.

[Maple]

3. Half of Iraq

is related to him one way or another.

[xxqqqzme]

5. just what I was thinking

There must B a relative or 2 of SH w/i the confines of the US. Can we arrest them also?

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Isn't everybody in Fallujah

related to Saddam?