Iraq's deputy health minister arrested
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U.S. and Iraqi forces detained Iraq's deputy health minister on Thursday, a senior member of a radical Shi'ite political group, in the first major sign that a security crackdown in Baghdad was under way.
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Iraqi forces Sunday captured Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most wanted member of Saddam Hussein&#39;s ousted dictatorship, Iraq&#39;s top information official told The Associated Press.
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A prominent Syrian dissident, who the United States had urged be allowed to travel abroad for medical treatment, has been arrested, a Syrian human rights group said Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi officials thought they had the king of clubs. Yesterday morning, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman announced the capture of one of Iraq's most wanted men, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a confidant of Saddam Hussein and the highest-ranking regime official at large.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces raided an Iraqi Health Ministry complex in central Baghdad today and arrested a deputy health minister, an Interior Ministry official said. Without naming the deputy minister, a U.S. military statement said Iraqi army forces had captured a suspect implicated in the deaths of several Iraqi government officials.
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Abu Hamza al-Masri is arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences.
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A Pakistani minister being investigated in connection with the death of a Canadian woman is arrested.
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AMSTERDAM - A Dutchman has been arrested on suspicion he was involved in war crimes and genocide committed by ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
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A temporary worker at the Cabinet Office has been arrested on suspicion of theft after a Special Branch investigation into media leaks.
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Iraq's foreign minister said Iraqi authorities have arrested a man suspected of organizing the murder of four Russian diplomats in Baghdad last year, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday.
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An arrest warrant has been issued for Iraq's Culture Minister on terrorism charges, Iraqi police say.
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BAGHDAD -- An arrest warrant was issued against Iraq's Sunni culture minister, and police raided his home on Tuesday after he was accused of ordering a 2005 assassination attempt against a secular Sunni politician that killed his two sons, officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 9 -- Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Salam Z. al-Zobaee's cousin has been in government custody for eight months.
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The Solomon Islands' attorney-general is arrested in Papua New Guinea amid Australian child-sex charges.
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A woman pulled a pistol on Iraq's defense minister in his office but then broke down in tears in a failed assassination plot hatched by an Iraqi group in Syria, the minister said in comments published on Saturday. Hazim al-Shaalan told the pan-Arab al-Hayat newspaper the 40-year-old woman had drawn the gun, loaded with poisoned bullets, during a meeting with him and other officials more than one week ago.
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Israeli troops arrested a Hamas cabinet minister early Saturday as part of a widening offensive against the group.
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Iraqi authorities say they have arrested the second-in-command of al-Qaeda in Iraq.