Word: tikritis
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These are not the people that Saddam Hussein counts on. He has drawn around himself a tight circle of supporters, loyal members of his al-Tikriti clan, whose interlocking relationships ensure his control of the security services, the military and the Baath party. The army is run by a cousin who launched poison-gas attacks against the Kurds in 1988 and destroyed Shi'ite holy sites in the south after the war. Internal security is entrusted to two half- brothers, and Saddam's younger son, Qusai, 26, was recently put in charge of the 10,000-man presidential guard. Another...
...companies in Amman handled the business, many of them Iraqi fronts established after Saddam's invasion of Kuwait two years ago. Al- Bawadi Co., for example, an Amman importer of European goods, has been identified by Western intelligence as the creation of Saddam's half brother Ibrahim al-Tikriti, who directs Iraq's internal security. Arabco, which deals in military equipment, was also identified by Western intelligence as a firm run by Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamel. With an estimated $30 billion stashed in foreign banks, Saddam has plenty of funds to bribe Jordanian officials and purchase goods...
...have been an Iraqi judgment at the meeting itself that made war inescapable. Throughout the talks Saddam's half-brother Barzan Tikriti had sat on Aziz's right, closely scrutinizing the American team. Soon after the session ended, Barzan called Baghdad. The Americans don't want to fight, he told Saddam. They want to talk their way out. They are weak...
...clue from Geneva last week suggested that Saddam still needed a good deal of persuading. According to an intelligence service friendly to the U.S., Barzan Tikriti, Saddam's half-brother and the member of Aziz's delegation closest to the President, pronounced himself unconvinced by Baker's hard line. If Saddam believes his relative, he will see no urgency in accepting any proposal that leaves him with less than he started with, which is all of Kuwait...