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July 5, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/05/international/middleeast/05INSU.html?hp

U.S.: Hussein Kin Aid Insurgency

(New York Times) A network of Saddam Hussein's cousins, operating in part from Syria and Jordan, is actively involved in the smuggling of guns, people, and money into Iraq to support the anti-American insurgency, say American government officials and a prominent Iraqi. The operations involve at least three cousins from the Majid family who now live in Syria and in Europe. A leading figure among them is Fatiq Suleiman al-Majid, a cousin of Hussein's and a former officer in Iraq's Special Security Organization, who is described as "a main money man" and has been living in Syria with the knowledge of the Syrian authorities.

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