On the escape of Iraq general in Denmark
Iraq-Denmark, Politics, 3/24/2003

The Danish BT daily said that the agents of the CIA had organized the escape of the opposition Iraqi Lt. Gen. Nizar al-Khazraji, the former chief of staff of the Iraqi army to Saudi Arabia via Germany

The paper said that al-Khazraji, who disappeared since March 17, the US sought to take him out of Denmark in secret in order to take part in planning for military operations against Karkouk to the North of Iraq because of his knowledge of the area and the Iraqi military installations in it.

Worthy mentioning that al-Khazraji who is recently considered by the American press as one of the candidates to succeed the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was under home arrest in Denmark when the judicial authorities accused him of committing war crimes against the Kurds during the 1980s.

Al-Khazraji who was fired by Saddam in 1990 after he had criticized the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait fled to Jordan in 1995 before he had arrived in Denmark in 1996.

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  Denmark: the Iraqi Lt. Nizar al-Khazraji disappeared   (3/18/2003)
  Home arrest for al-Khazraji in Denmark   (11/21/2002)
  Al-Khazraji arrested in Denmark   (11/20/2002)

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