IHT: 3 cousins of Saddam said to aid insurgents:
"WASHINGTON A network of Saddam Hussein's cousins is actively involved in the smuggling of guns, people and money into Iraq to support the anti-American insurgency, say U.S. officials and a prominent Iraqi.
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The operations, from staging areas in Syria and Jordan, involve at least three cousins from the Majid family who now live in Syria and in Europe, the U.S. officials said.
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A leading figure among them is Fatiq Suleiman al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam's and a former officer in Iraq's Special Security Organization who fled from Iraq to Syria last spring and may still be living there. The view that the cousins are helping to finance the insurgency developed fairly recently and is described in intelligence reports, the U.S. officials say. They said the conclusion was based in part on suspicious, recent movements of money and goods, including the transfer of cash into Syria, that were detected by U.S. intelligence.
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Saddam's family has a history of intermarriage with the Majid clan; his own full name is Saddam Hussein al-Majid."
"WASHINGTON A network of Saddam Hussein's cousins is actively involved in the smuggling of guns, people and money into Iraq to support the anti-American insurgency, say U.S. officials and a prominent Iraqi.
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The operations, from staging areas in Syria and Jordan, involve at least three cousins from the Majid family who now live in Syria and in Europe, the U.S. officials said.
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A leading figure among them is Fatiq Suleiman al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam's and a former officer in Iraq's Special Security Organization who fled from Iraq to Syria last spring and may still be living there. The view that the cousins are helping to finance the insurgency developed fairly recently and is described in intelligence reports, the U.S. officials say. They said the conclusion was based in part on suspicious, recent movements of money and goods, including the transfer of cash into Syria, that were detected by U.S. intelligence.
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Saddam's family has a history of intermarriage with the Majid clan; his own full name is Saddam Hussein al-Majid."
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