Word: takriti
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...financial documents and interrogate Iraqi officials. Among those they wish to grill are former Finance Minister Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-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