Doubt over capture of Saddam aide
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AD-DAWR, Iraq - Confusion reigned yesterday over whether Iraqi forces had captured Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, Saddam Hussein&#39;s loyal henchman, after an Iraqi general and the US military raised doubt over reports of his arrest.
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France says two journalists captured in Iraq are thought to be alive but there is no news on other captives.
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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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Iraqi forces have captured a senior  aide to al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the government said  Monday.
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France was torn between hope and doubt about its two hostages in Iraq on Wednesday after a purported French negotiator announced their imminent release but officials insisted they knew nothing about his ...
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France says it does not yet know whether a French female journalist missing in Iraq since early on Wednesday has been taken hostage, and has urged journalists not to travel to Iraq.
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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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Iraqi officials said Sunday that they had captured a man believed to be Izzat Ibrahim, the most wanted member of Saddam&#39;s Hussein&#39;s inner circle
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Authorities were last night scrutinising the identity of a suspect believed to be one of Saddam Hussein&#39;s top lieutenants, as the fate of two French journalists held hostage remains unknown.
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The chances of trying former Iraqi  leader Saddam Hussein in 2004 are remote, a U.S. official said  Friday, casting doubt on remarks by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi  who said the trial could begin as early as October.
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Iraqi officials struggled today to clear up confusion over whether the most wanted member of Saddam Husseinâs ousted dictatorship had been captured in a shoot-out north of Baghdad.
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The Iraqi government has admitted it made a mistake when it claimed to have captured Saddam Hussein&#39;s deputy, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, in a raid in the city of Tikrit.
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Reports that Saddam Hussein's former top aide Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri is in custody prove unfounded.
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Iraqi police have wounded the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq and killed his top aide, a spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry told CNN Thursday. The spokesman said Iraqi police have the body of the aide but he would not comment on if Abu Ayyub al-Masri was captured. The U.S. military has so far made no comment on the report. CNN has not independently confirmed the report.
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month has been released by his captors but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including Briton Kenneth Bigley threatened with beheading, remains unclear.
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Military officials said they know why the leader of a notorious insurgent group in Iraq has eluded capture.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi authorities claimed on Sunday to have captured Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most wanted member of Saddam Hussein's ousted dictatorship, but there was confusion over the report, as the Iraqi defense minister said word of his arrest was "baseless."   There have been incorrect reports of al-Douri's arrest in the past as U.S. and Iraqi forces hunt for the man who was once one of Saddam's most senior deputies...