Ex-minister tied to graft escapes in Iraq
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BAGHDAD -- Private guards in sport utility vehicles helped Iraq's former electricity minister, Ayham al-Samaraie, escape from a police station just outside the heavily fortified Green Zone where he was being held on corruption charges, officials said yesterday.
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A nephew of Saddam Hussein serving a life sentence for making bombs for Iraq's insurgency escaped from prison Saturday in northern Iraq, authorities said.
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6 September 2004 -- Iraq says that medical tests conducted on a arrested man have proven he is not Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking former Iraqi government official still at large.
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BAGHDAD - A Sunni schoolteacher was hijacked as he drove to visit his sister in a predominantly Shi'ite area of Baghdad yesterday. His body was found an hour later, a grim reminder that sectarian violence persists in the capital despite a recent decline.
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The Iraqi ministry of defense announced detention of Ezzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the former Iraqi vice President. A spokesman for the ministry said that al-Douri was arrested while taking medical treatment in
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Saddam Hussein's nephew, accused of financing the Sunni insurgency against U.S. forces, escaped from prison in northern Iraq on Saturday with the help of a guard, Iraqi officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen opened fire Wednesday on a convoy carrying former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi in an apparent assassination attempt that wounded two of his bodyguards, Chalabi's spokesman said.    Chalabi's convoy was attacked in southern Baghdad at about 7:30 a.m...
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military released a former Palestinian Cabinet minister swept up in a West Bank raid in May, saying yesterday that he had agreed to renounce his Hamas membership and would no longer hold positions in the militant Islamic group.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen ambushed the convoy of former Iraqi governing council president Ahmed Chalabi on Wednesday, wounding two of his bodyguards, aides said.
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Baghdad, September 6 Iraq&#39;s government was mired in confusion on Sunday on whether the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the run had been caught, with the defence minister denying his own ministry&#39;s report the fugitive had been seized.
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A Shiite legislator escaped an assassination attempt Sunday when a roadside bomb missed his convoy in downtown Baghdad &amp;#151; a day after a female Sunni legislator was kidnapped by gunmen from her car.
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An Anglican priest who may have received a cryptic warning of the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow has fled Iraq after threats against his life, an associate said Wednesday.
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A man believed to be a US contractor of Lebanese origin has been seized by gunmen in Baghdad overnight, Iraqi police have reported.
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TONY EASTLEY: An Australian journalist snatched by insurgents in Iraq, has contradicted claims by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer that he was kidnapped in a part of Baghdad where he was advised not to go.
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Militants who had kidnapped two relatives  of Iraqi Defense Minister Hazim al-Shalaan have released one of  them, Al Jazeera television reported Friday.
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The head of a Sunni insurgency umbrella group is captured in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, media reports say.
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Somalia's trade minister and former defense minister escaped assassination attempts, which killed two other people, in the latest Iraq-style guerrilla attacks on government targets, witnesses said on Wednesday.