Iraq Tries to Clear Confusion on Saddam Aide
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Iraq was scrambling to confirm on  Monday whether the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the  run had been captured, after a day of government confusion with  top officials making contradictory statements.
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Iraq'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 defense  minister denying his own ministry's report the fugitive had  been seized.
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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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Ali Hassan al-Majid, one of the closest aides to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and better known as &quot;Chemical Ali&quot;, is to be tried first, Iraq&#39;s Defence Minister Hazim Shaalan said Wednesday.
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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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BAGHDAD -- Three close associates of former president Saddam Hussein will move to the next stage of their legal cases before Christmas, when investigative judges will begin questioning them to gather facts for their trials, Iraqi government officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - In a day of conflicting statements, Iraqi authorities first said, then denied they had captured Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most senior member still at large from Saddam Hussein&#39;s ousted regime.
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Attempts to release the two French journalists held for over six weeks in Iraq have become enmeshed in new confusion, with the French government expressing fury at the interference of several unofficial French negotiators who claim to be on the brink of
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Saddam Hussein&#39;s former deputy, Ali Hassan al-Majid - widely known as Chemical Ali - has been questioned by Iraqi judges in a pre-trial hearing.
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Conflicting accounts about the possible release of Iraqi detainees -- among them the woman known as &quot;Dr. Germ&quot; -- were issued by the US and Iraqi governments Wednesday.
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Saddam Hussein hid behind ambiguities and evasions about whether Iraq possessed illicit weapons, partly as a deterrent to Iran.
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The confusion yesterday over whether two &quot;high-value&quot; women prisoners being held in Iraq would be released has underlined the limits of the interim government&#39;s authority.
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Human rights advocates and lawyers say Iraq's hush-hush legal proceedings against Saddam Hussein's ousted regime and the secrecy leading up to the investigative hearings that began late last week threaten to undermine the legitimacy of the trial process.
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Some in Iraq question how and why war is being waged.
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Grave doubts have emerged over reports that Saddam Hussein's top aide, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, is in custody.
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U.S. President George W. Bush's national security adviser has raised serious doubts about Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ability to control sectarian violence, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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Iraq's prime minister was misunderstood when he said the Americans could leave "any time they want" an aide said Sunday, as politicians moved to end a pair of boycotts that are holding up work on crucial political reforms sought by Washington.