US officials deny that Saddam is on hunger strike
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AMMAN/BAGHDAD - A year after former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein was taken captive, US officials Sunday denied that the deposed leader was on a hunger strike and said he was in best of health.
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A year after he was captured by U.S.  troops, some of Saddam Hussein's old lieutenants stirred up new  interest in his fate on Sunday by going on hunger strike over  access to lawyers and fears of being handed over to Iraqis.
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BAGHDAD - The International Red Cross is being asked to investigate reports that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and several of his former colleagues are on a hunger strike in captivity.
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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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Some of Saddam Hussein&#39;s jailed lieutenants have been refusing food, the US military says, but the officer in charge of detainees in Baghdad has denied
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Iraqi officials now say Saddam Hussein&#39;s former top deputy was not arrested as had been announced Sunday. The Interior Ministry says Monday medical tests indicate that a person arrested during a raid Sunday near Tikrit is not Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri.
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The most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the run in Iraq has not been captured, the Interior Ministry says. A statement by the ministry on Monday said medical checks on a man in custody showed he was not
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - 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.   "The required tests to identify him showed he is not Izzat al-Douri," Kadhim told The Associated Press...
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The Bush administration does not plan to take immediate action or pressure foreign governments to act against individuals or companies that may have violated U.N. sanctions against Saddam Hussein.
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Tareq Aziz, deputy prime minister under  Saddam Hussein, denies Iraq exploited the scandal-hit U.N.  oil-for-food program to make billions of dollars, his defense  lawyer said on Friday.
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Eight of Saddam Hussein's 11 top lieutenants went on hunger strikes over the weekend to demand visits in jail from the International Committee of the Red Cross, but they were eating again by Monday, a U.S. military spokesman said. The former dictator had never joined the protest, the spokesman said.
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The U.S. military and Iraqi government denied reports on Thursday that al Qaeda's leader in Iraq had been killed in a raid but said DNA tests would be conducted on bodies recovered after the attack to make sure.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denies President Clinton's claim that he did more to stop al-Qaeda.
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The US denies that a female prisoner in Iraq is to be freed, as a British hostage's family awaits news of his fate.
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Top US officials were aware some pre-war evidence cited to make the case against Iraq&#39;s Saddam Hussein was questionable but US intelligence officials nonetheless deemed the threat of his developing nuclear weapons credible, top
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A mutilated body found in Iraq last month was not that of aid worker Margaret Hassan, officials have said. Dental records definitely proved the corpse US troops discovered in Falluja on 14 November was someone else&#39;s, a Foreign Office spokesman said.
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Eight of Saddam Hussein&#39;s top deputies held in US custody are refusing to eat, although they are taking liquids, a US officer responsible for detainees has said, playing down talk of a &quot;hunger strike&quot;.