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Saddam's brother "financing militants"

BAGHDAD, FEB. 27. Iraqi security forces captured Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, Saddam Hussein's half brother and former adviser who was suspected of financing militants from Syria, the Government said on Sunday.

In a statement, the Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi's office said the arrest ``shows the determination of the Iraqi government to chase and detain all criminals who carried out massacres and whose hands are stained with the blood of the Iraqi people, then bring them to justice to face the right punishment.'' South of Baghdad, Iraqi forces found four headless bodies dumped on a farm, and a fifth headless corpse in the capital, officials said. A bomb exploded inside headquarters of police in the northern town of Hammam Alil, killing five persons. And the U.S. command announced a U.S. Marine was killed on Saturday during military operations in central Babil province.

Mr. Al-Hassan is No. 36 on the list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis released by U.S. authorities after troops invaded Iraq in March 2003, and one of only 12 remaining at large. He is also suspected of financing militants in the post-Saddam era, and Washington had put a $1 million bounty on his head. — AP

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