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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...
...just any man, it seems. U.S. officials think he was Kamal Derwish, a Yemeni American cited in federal court papers as the ringleader of an alleged terrorist sleeper cell in Lackawanna, N.Y., outside Buffalo. The putative American in al-Harethi's entourage traveled under the name Ahmed Hijazi, an alias used by Derwish. A positive identification may be difficult: the 5-ft.-long Hellfire turned the six people in the car into a mass of carbonized body parts. "They never knew they were in our sights," a U.S. official said. "And I can assure you, they never knew what...
...INVOLVED Of 28 charged, 22 were convicted, including alleged bin Laden associate Raed Hijazi. Hijazi, who denies the charges, is being retried after he was sentenced to death in absentia...
...arrested Nabil Al-Marabh in Chicago. He was wanted for fleeing probation in Boston, where he stabbed a roommate. While in Michigan, he had obtained a license to transport hazardous materials. Agents believe he knew one of the hijackers and may have funneled money to fellow Boston cabby Raed Hijazi, a bin Laden associate on trial in Jordan for his role in the foiled Millennium attacks. The FBI also has questions for Mouldi Sayeh, a Boston hotel owner. Witnesses allege he may be a broker for bin Laden siblings there. A man arrested at New York City's JFK airport...