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To: goldworldnet who wrote (675127)	3/14/2005 3:15:22 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 769670

Hussein Relatives Are Captured in Tikrit By ROBERT F. WORTH Published: March 14, 2005 nytimes.com BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 14 - Iraqi security forces, acting on tips from residents in Saddam Hussein's hometown, captured two relatives of the former dictator who are accused of helping to finance and carry out attacks, officials said today. The men, Abdullah Maher Abdul Rashid and his cousin Marwan Taher Abdul Rashid, were captured on March 8 in Tikrit, the Iraqi government said in a statement. Iraqi officials believe Abdullah Maher Abdul Rashid used large amounts of money from Mr. Hussein's son Qusay, who was his brother-in-law, to finance insurgent attacks, the statement said. Marwan Taher Abdul Rashid previously worked as a bodyguard for Mr. Hussein. The two men are not on the deck of cards showing the most-wanted members of Mr. Hussein's government. The last major figure captured was Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan al-Tikriti, Mr. Hussein's half-brother, who was arrested last month with help from Syrian officials. The captures came as leaders of the major Kurdish and Shiite alliances continued their negotiations to form a government. The groups say they have agreed on the major points, but some key issues, such as the role of Islam in the constitution and the status of the northern city of Kirkuk, are still being discussed. The groups have said they expect to take significant steps towards forming a government by March 16, when the first meeting of the newly elected National Assembly will take place. Violence continued to ripple across central and northern Iraq today. Gunmen killed a police officer and his brother this morning in the southern Zafarania district, police officials said. Hours later, Munir Mohammed Jassim, an Army brigadier general, was also gunned down, the officials said. In Mosul, a cameraman for a Kurdish satellite TV station was gunned down in front of Mosul University. In Taji, north of Baghdad, a suicide bomber drove a white sedan full of explosives into an American military convoy, injuring at least one Iraqi civilian, police officials said. Another suicide bomb detonated south of the capital in Yusufiya, missing a convoy of sport utility vehicles and injuring four people in a civilian car, The Associated Press reported. The director of Iraq's Health Ministry, Saad al Amili, narrowly escaped assassination this morning when a bomb detonated outside his house in western Baghdad, the police said. The blast injured at least four guards, two of them seriously.