Word: aziz
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...biggest coups of the antiterrorism campaign so far, they grabbed a Yemeni al-Qaeda leader named Waleed Muhammad bin Attash along with five Pakistanis who had stashed 330 lbs. of explosives and weapons under the produce. Another big fish netted in the raid was Ali Abd al-Aziz, a bin Laden bagman who, U.S. officials tell TIME, funneled nearly $120,000 to the Sept. 11 hijackers. Aziz could help expose the secret financial networks that fund al-Qaeda operations...
...form a government themselves, the five - the leaders of the two main Kurdish parties, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani; Ahmed Chalabi from the Pentagon-backed Iraqi National Congress; Iyad Allawi, head of the Iraqi National Accord, an exile organization of Iraqi officials who defected from the regime; and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, a leader of the Iran-based Shiite organization the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - are calling for a national assembly toward the end of the month to elect an interim government that would serve for two years and organize democratic elections. But given its central...
...Azzawi, who is expected to know about the flow of money through Iraqi banking networks into neighboring countries like Jordan and Syria, and Saddam's half brother Barzan al-Takriti, who is thought to have managed the family's fortune from Geneva. Treasury officials also have designs on Aziz, who, though principally a foreign-policy expert, may have helped place regime funds in financial centers like Liechtenstein and Austria. --By Adam Zagorin and Mark Thompson
With the surrender to U.S. authorities last week of Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, the Pentagon has nabbed at least a dozen of the 55 senior Iraqi officials in its most-wanted deck of cards. Soon after catching Aziz, the military scored again by seizing Farouk Hijazi, a former high-ranking Iraqi spy, at the Syrian border. Now that the big shots are in custody, what will the U.S. do with them? Although their final fate--including whether, and where, they will face trial--is still being debated, the Pentagon is hard at work on its first priority...
...Afghanistan border to the port city of Karachi. Then they pounced, capturing a Yemeni al-Qaeda leader named Waleed Muhammad bin Attash along with five Pakistanis who had stashed 330 pounds of explosives and weapons under the produce. Another big fish netted in the raid was Ali Abd al-Aziz, a bin Laden bagman who, U.S. officials tell TIME, funneled nearly $120,000 to the Sept. 11 hijackers. Aziz could help expose details of the secret financial networks used by al-Qaeda to fund its past and future operations...