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...forces have apprehended Farouk Hijazi, the Iraqi spymaster and former ambassador to Turkey. Hijazi has confessed to meeting with top al Qaeda brass, under Saddam’s orders, in 1994 in Sudan—as had long been speculated by American intelligence. He will not admit to a much-rumored December 1998 summit with bin Laden in Kandahar, at which time he allegedly offered the Saudi exile refuge in Iraq...
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...
...only important Iraqi official actually spotted in Syria last week was Farouk Hijazi, former chief of Saddam's mukhabarat intelligence service, who had been ambassador to Tunisia before flying into Damascus. U.S. officials were negotiating with the Syrians to hand Hijazi over quietly, when his presence in the country was leaked to the press. That made it impossible for Syria to cooperate without losing face. According to a knowledgeable source, U.S. intelligence reports have produced no other hard evidence that any high-ranking Iraqis are actually in Syria...
...then Al-Marabh had probably already heard about the arrests of three men whom federal agents had found in his former Detroit home when they were looking for him. As with Al-Marabh, it is unclear whether Farouk Ali-Haimoud, 21, Karim Koubriti, 23, and Ahmed Hannan, 33, have any connection to the attacks. Yet two of them--Koubriti and Hannan--had worked for two months for LSG Sky Chefs, a catering company providing airplane meals at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. The agents who arrested the three men uncovered several phony documents including a passport, a Social Security card...
...House officials suspect that aides to Israeli Prime Minister EHUD BARAK leaked the draft to the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz to show skeptical Israelis that Barak is bargaining tough and winning concessions. "That does make our work harder," says State Department spokesman JAMES RUBIN. Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister FAROUK SHARA were to return to Shepherdstown this week. Clinton aides hope the two will finally start bargaining seriously behind closed doors and stop posturing. "It doesn't instill confidence in your negotiating partners when everything is out in public," says a U.S. diplomat...