Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris

Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro
de la Prensa-Baszn Ozeti
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ONGOINGAfter Uday's and Qusay's deaths, U.S. soldiers continue.d to face resistance,
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like from this fedayee, killed in a gun battle with the 22nd Infantry Regiment I"st week
. The U.S., of course, never had any intention
of offering Uday the amnesty he
sought. .
AI-Zaydan's house, according to Uelay's
former butler, was a center for Feelayeen
money and rations, so it made sense for
Uday and Qusay to wind up there. Qusay
took his son MÎ1s~ to the house, says the
.butler, "becausehe depended on him. He
èould go and. sWi.tehon the generator or
go shopping. His face is not very well
known:' Abdpl Jabar Mohammad Arif, who
owns a bread shop opposite the mansion,
says he noticed nothing unusual until the
night before the' raid, when al-Zaydan
came by to pick up 60 loaves of flatbread.
Normally, his wife bought just four or five
eachelay for the immediate family. "I
thought he had some party or guests;' Arif
says.
In Mosul, residents believe
that al-Zaydan was the informant
who sold the brothers out.
Early on the morning of the
raid, neighbors say they saw
his wife and daughter leave
the building; later, when al-
Zaydan and his son surrendered,
U.S. soldiers did not
handcuff them or cover their
heads with canvas bags, as they
typically do to Iraqi detainees.
,The U.S. did not say al-Zaydan
.was the informant. Whoever it
is, the informant is being kept
in U.S. custody out of fear of assassination.
But al-Zaydan did
have the incentive to cooperate:
in addition to the Amer-'
ican offer of $15 million for
informatiop. leading to the arrest
of either brother, there was
.~ personal score to settle.
Saddam had once jailed al-
Zaydan's brother for claiming
he was a blood relative of the
President's family.
Plenty of other Iraqis have
been waiting for their own moment
to exact revenge for the
~egime's crimes-which is why
U.S. officials are cautiously
optimistic that they can nab
Saddam. After last week's siege
on the Mosul house, U.S. intelligence
officers scoured the
wreckage for any clue to
Saddam's whereabouts. A man who was in
the crowd was identified to a TIME reporter
as one of Saddam's personal escorts from
a small group within the feared Special
Security Organization, which was run by
Qusay. Another member of the family's
protection squad was pointed out later that
day in a busy shopping district in Mosul.
Asked by TIME'S reporter about al-Zaydan's
relationship to Saddam, the man replied, "I
don't know. I'm not from Mosul. I'm from
Baghdad. I'm here as a tourist:' Then a
companion whisked him away.
The willingness of Iraqis to point fingers
at such people is what gives U.S. officials
renewed hope of capturing Saddam.
Says Timothy Yusef Youkhana, a medical
technician who long served the Husseins,
especially Uday: "Saddam is an old man,
and both his sons have died. Who is with
him? He is alone now:' U.S. forces hope to
provide some company soon. -Reported by
Brian Bennett and VMenne Walt/Baghdad,
Simon Roblnson/TlkrJt and Michael Ware/
Mosul
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