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作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
U.S.: Top Iraqi official in custody
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) --Tariq Aziz, the deputy prime minister in the regime of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, is in U.S. custody, CNN has confirmed.
Aziz, who was often the public face of the regime on the international stage, was No. 43 on the list of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis and was the "eight of spades" in the deck of cards being circulated by coalition troops.
It was not immediately clear how Aziz was taken into custody.
On the eve of war, Aziz denounced reports that he had either been shot or had asked for political asylum. Earlier, Aziz said he would never go into exile and "would prefer to die" rather than "go to Guantanamo" as a U.S. prisoner of war.
Other developments
• Lt. Gen. David McKiernan, commander of ground forces in Iraq, plans to issue a proclamation reminding Iraqi politicians that coalition forces are the sole authority in the country until a new government is put in place, U.S. military sources told CNN. The proclamation is part of an effort to ensure Iraqi politicians don't attempt to fill a power vacuum left by the ouster of Saddam Hussein's regime. (Full story)
• U.S. Marines from the 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, attached to Task Force Tarawa, are patrolling the Iraqi-Iranian border along the length of the Wasit Province east of Kut. The patrols are designed to keep Iranian-backed dissidents from coming into Iraq. The Marines are under orders to search and interview all people attempting to enter or leave Iraq through Iran. The Marines hope to locate and detain "all former regime officials, third-country nationals and insurgents," according to a U.S. Central Command statement.
• The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Thursday to extend the U.N.'s authority over a portion of the "oil-for-food" program in Iraq until June 3. The program was halted March 17 as war in Iraq loomed. Before the war, 60 percent of Iraqis were dependent on the program. The extension is not a rollover of the program, which is already scheduled to end June 3, but allows the U.N. to select priority humanitarian goods from the programs' contracts until the program ends.
• Home videos of Saddam show fleeting glimpses into the private life of the deposed Iraqi dictator and his first wife, Sajida. The four tapes show scenes of Saddam's private life in the late 1980s. CNN obtained the video from an Iraqi who says he took it from the house of Saddam's first wife. (Full story)
• Russia shifted its position slightly Thursday, following France in supporting a partial, temporary lifting of U.N. sanctions against Iraq. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Thursday the U.N. Security Council is considering the possibility of suspending the sanctions temporarily "on goods that may be used for humanitarian problems in Iraq." Russia remains opposed to any automatic lifting of sanctions, which the United States has proposed. Russia first wants international inspectors to return to Iraq to certify whether the country is free of weapons of mass destruction. (Full story)
• A mass grave unearthed near the northern city of Mosul in Kurdish-controlled Iraq could yield clues to the whereabouts of the remains of some of the thousands of Iranian prisoners of war who disappeared during or after the Iran-Iraq War that ended in 1988. The remains of about 300 people have been removed from the site. Left in the bottom of the pit were boots, bones and parts of blood-stained uniforms.
• U.S. authorities filed the first criminal charges related to the looting of Iraqi antiquities after the fall of Saddam's government. Federal prosecutors said Benjamin James Johnson, 27 -- who was in Iraq as an engineer for Fox News Channel -- was charged in a criminal complaint with smuggling 12 Iraqi paintings and 40 Iraqi bonds into the United States. (Full story)
作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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