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Iraq
April 27, 2003
Iraqi Weapons Chief Held

[Sky News]

The chief Iraqi liaison with UN weapons inspectors, Lt. Gen. Hossan Mohammed Amin, is in coalition custody, says US Central Command.

Amin, the former Iraqi National Monitoring Director, was No 49 on the US list of the 55 most wanted figures from the regime of Saddam Hussein.

(Amin is the Six of Clubs in the most wanted deck of cards)

UPDATE Fox has more:

The general was among the key figures in Saddam's weapons programs and would have detailed knowledge of any illegal armaments.

For more than a decade as head of the monitoring commission, the former air force communications engineer has earned a reputation as a loyal officer who has fulfilled Saddam's expectations.

Amin and his troops refused to allow U.N. inspectors into presidential palaces and other "sensitive sites" during the first round of U.N. inspections that ended in 1998.

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Posted By Michele Catalano at April 27, 2003 08:09 AM | TrackBack
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And then read this:

news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=400805

Lots of differing perspectives on this, now that there's time to consider things.

Posted by: Don at April 27, 2003 06:56 PM
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