Baghdad: three men in Ode's assassination attempt is in a neighboring state
Iraq, Politics, 12/14/2000

An Iraqi security source said on Wednesday that three out of five persons who took part in the assassination attempt against Ode Saddam Hussein, the elder son for the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in 1996 are still fleeing, noting that they are existed " in a foreign state neighboring Iraq."

The Iraqi weekly al-Rafeideen quoted a source at the at the general security directorate in a file which is the first of its kind saying that " three of five persons took part in the attack crime which claimed the life of Ode four years ago are fleeing from the face of the justice."

Although the Iraqi security source gave no mention to the name of the country to which those took part in the attack resorted, there are suggestions show that this country is Iran which was then accused by Iraq of being behind the operation.

Worthy mentioning that Ode Saddam Hussein occupies the post of the chairman of the Iraqi national Olympic committee, the chairman of the central federation of the Football, the chairman of the Iraqi youths and students unions and the chairman of the Iraqi journalists Union, the chairman of the editing board of the Iraqi daily Babel. He also supervises the " Youths TV and radio."

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