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February 19, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,897859,00.html

Iraqi Defense Minister Under House Arrest

(Guardian-UK) - Luke Harding Saddam Hussein is reported to have placed his defense minister and close relative under house arrest in an extraordinary move apparently designed to prevent a coup. Iraqi opposition newspapers, citing sources in Baghdad, claimed Monday that the head of the Iraqi military, Lieutenant-General Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Jabburi Tai, was now effectively a prisoner in his home.

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