Izzat Ibrahim has successful cardiac surgery

Iraqi newspapers wrote yesterday that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced that the Vice President of the Revolutionary Command Council, Izzat Ibrahim, underwent successful cardiac surgery late last month in Baghdad.

"Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and First Lieutenant General of Staff Izzat Ibrahim submitted to a prosthetic transplantation of a coronary artery, he is in a good health," Hussein, celebrating Army Day, told senior Iraqi Army officers attending ceremonies.