Iraq Government Retracts Claim Top Saddam Aide Held
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Iraq's government said on Monday it had  not captured the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the  run, in an embarrassing climbdown a day after top officials  reported he had been seized in a raid by Iraqi forces.
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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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Iraq's government was scrambling on  Sunday to confirm whether the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide  still on the run had been captured, as confident statements  that he had been seized gave way to doubt and confusion.
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BAGHDAD - The media was scrambling to confirm yesterday whether the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the run had been captured, after a day of confusion, with top officials making contradictory statements.
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Medical tests have shown that a man being held in Iraqi custody is not former president Saddam Hussein's deputy, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Interior Ministry spokesman Sabah Kadhim said Monday.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq announced the capture of a senior aide to leading militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi yesterday, hours after Zarqawi claimed responsibility for a suicide blast near the offices of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
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Iraq&#39;s Defense Ministry has announced the arrest of the most wanted man in Iraq: Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a deputy to Saddam Hussein.
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The government renewed its defense of its decision to join the US-led invasion of Iraq, despite a US report which says former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction.
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Iraqi and U.S. forces arrested a man believed to be the most-wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the run in a bloody raid on Sunday in which 70 of his supporters were killed and 80 captured, the government said.
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BAGHDAD Iraqi officials on Sunday said they had captured a man believed to be Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the last member of Saddam Hussein&#39;s inner circle believed to have been at large, following a gunfight at a medical clinic in a town north of Baghdad.
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Iraqi forces Sunday captured Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most wanted member of Saddam Hussein&#39;s ousted dictatorship, Iraq&#39;s top information official told The Associated Press.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 23 -- U.S. forces detained the son of one of Iraq's most prominent Shiite politicians for several hours Friday, a spokesman for the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq said.
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Iraq is scrambling to confirm whether the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the run has been captured, after a day of government confusion with top officials making contradictory statements.
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Iraqi authorities are struggling to clear up the confusion over whether the most wanted member of Saddam Hussein&#39;s ousted dictatorship has been nabbed.
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The White House denied that aides to President George W. Bush had a hand in crafting Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's speech to the US Congress last week.
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Iraqi forces have captured a senior  aide to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the government said  Monday.
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The most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the run in Iraq, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has not been captured, the interior ministry said today, adding that medical checks on a man in custody showed he was not Ibrahim.