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...Aziz (also known as Ammar al-Baluchi), a nephew of captured al-Qaeda operations boss Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and first cousin of 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind Ramzi Yousef, was arrested with a higher-ranking al-Qaeda lieutenant, Walid Ba 'Attash, aka "Khallad" or Tawfiq Bin Attash an Osama bin Laden intimate who is believed to have organized the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen...
...While the capture of the more notorious Attash has dominated the headlines, Aziz, about 25, is also a prize catch. He is believed to have provided the 9/11 hijackers with about a quarter of their financial support. If he cooperates, he can expose details of secret financial channels used by al-Qaeda in other operations, including those still in the planning stages...
...speaking terms with Washington since Gulf War I, its Tehran-based leader, Ayatullah Mohammed Bakr al Hakim warned before Gulf War II that U.S. forces would be attacked as occupiers if they lingered too long in Iraq after ousting Saddam. In Kerbala this week, Hakim's brother Abdul Aziz, who is SCIRI's deputy leader, declared: "The American presence is unacceptable and there's no justification for it staying in Iraq...
...searching for clues that would unravel the mysteries of Saddam's weapons program. Soldiers explored the Old Palace, imagining what it would be like to take a shower in the gold-and-marble bathrooms. It turns out that Saddam favored Colgate toothpaste and French cuffs; Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz read both Henry Kissinger and Danielle Steel. There were skinny lions, cheetahs and bears in pens on the grounds of one palace, which had 64 bathrooms. The Los Angeles Times reported that soldiers found a sheep on the grounds and fed it to the cats...
...small bands of loyalists cling to control of the cities, from which they hope to drag the U.S. into a frustrating, Vietnam-style guerrilla conflict. "People say to me, 'You are not the Vietnamese. You have no jungles and swamps to hide in,'" Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz told one interviewer last year. "I reply, 'Let our cities be our swamps and our buildings be our jungles...