IRAQ: BROTHER OF MAN, SUSPECTED TO HAVE INFORMED COALITION FORCES OF LOCATION OF SADDAH HUSSEINS SON, HAS BEEN SHOT DEAD

Record ID: 647861

  • Title: IRAQ: BROTHER OF MAN, SUSPECTED TO HAVE INFORMED COALITION FORCES OF LOCATION OF SADDAH HUSSEINS SON, HAS BEEN SHOT DEAD
  • Date: 5th June 2004
  • Summary: (W4) MOSUL, IRAQ (JUNE 5,2004) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF THE CAR, WITH BULLET HOLES, IN WHICH SALAH ZEIDAN BEEN KILLED 0.25 2. CLOSE OF INTERIOR OF CAR WITH GLASS 0.30 3. WIDE OF EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL WHERE INJURED WERE TAKEN 0.36 4. VARIOUS OF INJURED MAN LYING IN A HOSPITAL BED 0.48 5. VARIOUS OF INJURED BOY LYING IN HOSPITAL BED AND BEING ATTENDED TO BY DOCTOR 1.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: MOSUL,IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA75I0NX76UE8D75EJ0O3U1WKAY
  • Story Text: The Brother of the "informant" on Saddam's sons shot
    dead.



    Gunmen killed the brother of a man widely regarded
    as having revealed the location of Saddam Hussein's sons to
    U.S. troops in an attack on his car on Saturday (June 5, 2004),
    police said.

    Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay were killed in July 2003
    when soldiers stormed a villa in Mosul belonging to Nawaf
    al-Zeidan, who is distantly related to Saddam. Locals said
    Zeidan had tipped off U.S. forces that Saddam's sons were
    staying at his villa.

    Zeidan's brother, Salaah al-Zeidan, was killed and
    three of his male relatives travelling in the same vehicle
    were wounded, including an eight-year-old boy, during the
    attack on Saturday.

    It was not clear whether the killing in the city's
    northern al-Hadbaa neighbourhood was a targeted
    assassination.

    The U.S. military confirmed it had been tipped off
    about the whereabouts of Uday and Qusay, and said the
    informant had been paid a 30 million U.S. dollar reward and
    was resettled in a Western country. It never confirmed
    whether Zeidan was the informant.


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