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March 17, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,1-612630,00.html

Iraqi Chemical Weapons Official Shot Trying to Escape

(London Times) - Marie Colvin Khalis Muhsin al-Tikriti, 35, had been working in the scientific department of the president's office under the authority of the Special Security Organization (SSO), headed by Qusay Hussein, Saddam's younger son and political heir. Al-Tikriti, an engineer, had supervised an operation to bury a significant quantity of Saddam's chemical weapons before UN weapons inspectors arrived last November. Some weapons were buried near the river Tigris in the Baji area north of Baghdad by a specially formed group in the SSO. In a chilling attempt to ensure that the location of the weapons remained secret, the SSO members who concealed them were executed. Al-Tikriti, fearing he too would be executed, then tried to escape and was allegedly shot in the head.

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