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Copyright 2003 Chicago Tribune Company
Chicago Tribune
November 28, 2003 Friday, CHICAGO FINAL EDITION
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HEADLINE: Iraqi council leader criticizes U.S. plan;
Changes sought in governing process
BYLINE: BY-Alissa J. Rubin, Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times.
DATELINE: BAGHDAD
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A U.S.-backed plan to give Iraqis sovereignty over their country again
quickly appeared to be unraveling Thursday as a leading politician backed
complaints by Shiite authorities that the process was not democratic enough.
Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi Governing Council's president, said he agreed with
the criticism of Grand Ayatollah All al-Sistani, the country's leading Shiite
cleric, and expected revisions in the plan.
"I see the views of his grace as logical and reasonable, and I agree with
them," said Talabani, a Sunni Muslim and leader of one of the two main Kurdish
parties.
A Shiite leader said al-Sistani is concerned that the 15-member organizing
committee, which will be instrumental in choosing each province's
representatives to the new interim legislature, may be tainted and wants some
elements of direct election in the selection process.
Al-Sistani's grievances are seen as a serious setback for the U.S.-led
rebuilding effort. Renegotiating a deal could delay the handing over of
sovereignty, jeopardize efforts to diminish the U.S. military presence in Iraq
and undercut the White House's insistence that it is in control of the
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situation.
Plans for a U.S.-financed media campaign to promote the agreement have been
put on hold, said coalition officials.
Coalition officials and the Iraqis insist that they do not want a•
confrontation, but the situation puts two of the most powerful people in Iraq at
odds: al-Sistani and Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian administrator overseeing the
reconstruction.
At issue is the agreement signed Nov. 15 by Bremer and the Governing Council.
It calls for the creation of an interim legislature, relying on caucus-style
elections in 18 districts across the country. The council would dissolve under
the plan, and the interim government would serve until a constitution was
approved and a permanent government was elected.
Bremer already made a major concession to al-Sistani by agreeing to put off
the drafting of a permanent constitution until its writers could be elected.
Told that the concession is insufficient, Bremer is enormously frustrated
with the council, according to one of its members.
Talabani's agreement with al-Sistani amounted to a complete turnabout in 24
hours. Earlier, he had supported keeping the plan in its current form.
Also Thursday, the U.S. military said a former Iraqi general died while under
American interrogation, The Associated Press reported.
Maj. Gen. Abed Hamad Mowhoush, an air defense general captured Oct. 5 in a
raid near the Syrian border, was being questioned Wednesday in Qaim when he lost
consciousness after complaining about not feeling well, the military said in a
statement.
He was pronounced dead by a U.S. military physician, and the case is under
investigation.
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HEADLINE: Ex Iraqi general dies in US custody
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A former Iraqi general suspected of financing anti-coalition activities died
yesterday while being interrogated by US forces in the town of Qaim, 200 miles
north-west of Baghd'ad.
A statement by the coalition in Baghdad said Major-General Abed Hamad
Mowhoush, who was in the Republican Guard, was captured near the Syrian border
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on October 5. He fell ill yesterday morning during "an interview with US forces
" , and died.
"Mowhoush said he didn't feel well and subsequently lost consciousness," the
statement said. "The soldier questioning him found no pulse and called for
medical authorities. A surgeon responded within five minutes to continue
advanced cardiac life support techniques, but they were ineffective." He was
pronounced dead by a US military physician.
According to the on-site surgeon it appeared Gen Mowhoush had died of
"natural causes", the military said, adding that his death was being
investigated. He was one of 112 people arrested during an anti-insurgency sweep
around Qaim, which is about a . mile from the Syrian border. At the time the US
military suggested he was funding anti-coalition activities.
* Many of the 2,700 Iraqi doctors working in Britain are being asked to
return to help rebuild their country's health service, Iraq's health minister,
Khudair Abbas, said yesterday, writes James Meikle
Experts in childcare, psychiatry and psychology will be encouraged to take
temporary posts. Iraq had about one doctor for every 2,000 people but they were
not spread uniformly, Mr Abbas said in London yesterday. There were fewer than
100 consultant psychiatrists, and just one or two clinical psychologists.
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HEADLINE: The World;
Ex-General Dies During Interrogation
BYLINE:.From Associated Press
DATELINE: BAGHDAD
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A former Iraqi general died while under American interrogation, the U.S.
military said Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush, an air defense general captured Oct. 5 in a
raid near the Syrian border, was being questioned Wednesda while in custody in
Qaim near the border when he loit consciousness after complaining he didn't feel
well, the military said in a statement.
He was pronounced dead by a military physician. The cause of death and the
interrogation techniques are under investigation, but Mowhoush's head was not
hooded during questioning, the Army's 82nd Airborne Division said. The statement
did not give his age.
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Mowhoush, a major general in the Republican Guard, was captured in a raid in
Qaim. A U.S. military spokeswoman said at the time that Mowhoush was believed to
have been financing attacks on U.S. forces.
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Iraqi General Dies In American Custody
BYLINE: AP
DATELINE: BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 27
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An Iraqi general has died while under American interrogation, the American
military said Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush, an air defense general captured on Oct. 5 in a
raid near the Syrian border, was being questioned Wednesday while in American
custody in Qaim near the Syrian border when he lost consciousness after
complaining he didn't feel well, the military said in a statement.
He was pronounced dead by a United States military physician. The cause of
death and interrogation techniques are under investigation. His head was not
hooded during questioning, a statement from the 82nd Airborne Division said.
General Mowhoush, who served in the Republican Guard, was captured in a raid
in Qaim. An American military spokeswoman said General Mowhoush was believed to
have been financing attacks on allied forces.
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HEADLINE: Captured Iraq general dies under questioning
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A FORMER Iraqi general has died while under interrogation, the US military
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said yesterday.
Abed Hamed Mowhoush, a Republican Guard air defence major-general captured
in a raid in October near the Syrian border, was being questioned on Wednesday
when he lost consciousness after complaining that he did not feel well, the
military said. •
He was pronounced dead by a US Army doctor. The cause of death and
interrogation techniques are under investigation, but General Mowhoush was not
hooded during questioning, the 82nd Airborne said.
An extra 3,000 US Marines are being sent to Iraq by the Pentagon and a
growing number , of intelligence experts and linguists from the 1,600-strong US
team sent to search for illicit weapons have been reassigned to the hunt for
insurgents.
Signalling that seeking out insurgents has become more urgent than the
search for illegal weapons, members of the Iraqi Survey Group have been told "to
broaden their perspective and not to stay so focused on weapons that they miss
the counter-insurgency stuff", a Pentagon official said.
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Copyright 2003 Agence France Presse
Agence France Presse
November 27, 2003 Thursday
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HEADLINE: Former Iraqi general dies under US interrogation
DATELINE: BAGHDAD, Nov 27
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A general of Saddam Hussein's dissolved armed forces has died under
interrogation by US forces, in a death that a US military statement Thursday
said "appeared" to be from natural causes.
Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush, a former air defence commander, died
Wednesday morning, said the statement issued from the western town of al-Qaim in
the troubled Syrian border region.
"Mowhoush said he didn't feel well and subsequently lost consciousness. The
soldier questioning him found no pulse, then conducted cardiac and pulmonary
resuscitation and called for medical authorities," the statement said.
"A surgeon responded within five minutes to continue advanced cardiac life
support techniques, but they were ineffective. According to the on-site surgeon,
it appeared Mowhoush died of natural causes."
The statement said that coalition forces were cooperating with local tribal
and religious leaders to "properly treat and transfer the body to their control
while verifying the cause of death" which was "currently under investigation."
The general was a member of the Mahalowi tribe. The Sunni Muslim tribal belt
in the middle Euphrates valley north and west of the Iraqi capital was a bastion
of support for Saddam's regime.
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The area around al-Qaim and the border town of Husaybah further west sees
regular attacks on US troops.
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Associated Press.
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HEADLINE: Former Iraqi general dies during interrogation
DATELINE: BAGHDAD, Iraq
BODY:
A former Iraqi general died while under American interrogation, the U.S.
military said Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Abed Flamed Mowhoush, an air defense general captured Oct. 5 in a
raid near the Syrian border, was being questioned Wednesday while in American
custody in Qaim near the Syrian border when he lost consciousness after
complaining he didn't feel well, the military said in a statement.
He was pronounced dead by a U.S. military physician. The cause of death and
interrogation techniques are under investigation, but Mowhoush's head was not •
hooded during questioning, the 82nd Airborne said. The statement did not give
his age.
Mowhoush, a major general in the Republican Guard, was captured in a raid in
Qaim. A U.S. military spokeswoman said at the time that Mowhoush was believed to
have been financing attacks on U.S. forces.
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HEADLINE: Former Iraqi general dies during U.S. interrogation
DATELINE: BAGHDAD, Iraq
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A former Iraqi general died while under interrogation, the U.S. military said
Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Abed Flamed Mowhoush, an air defense general captured Oct. 5 in a
raid near the Syrian border, was being questioned Wednesday in Qaim near the
Syrian border when lost consciousness after complaining he didn't feel well, the
military said in a statement.
He was pronounced dead by a U.S. military physician. The cause of death is
under investigation, the military said.
Mowhoush, a major general in the Republican Guard's air defense branch, was
captured in a raid in Qaim. A U.S. military spokeswoman said at the time that
Mowhoush was believed to have been financing attacks on U.S. forces.
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HEADLINE: Former Iraqi general dies during interrogation
DATELINE: BAGHDAD, Iraq
BODY:.
A former Iraqi general died while under interrogation, the U.S. military said
Thursday.
Maj. Gen. Abed Flamed Mowhoush, an air defense general captured Oct. 5 in a
raid near the Syrian border, was being questioned Wednesday while in American
custody in Qaim near the Syrian border when lost consciousness after complaining
he didn't feel well, the military said in a statement.
He was pronounced dead by a U.S. military physician. The cause of death and
interrogation techniques are under investigation, but Mowhoush's head was not
hooded during questioning, the 82nd Airborne said. The statement did not give
his age.
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Mowhoush, a major general in the Republican Guard's air defense branch, was
captured in a raid in Qaim. A U.S. military spokeswoman said at the time that
Mowhoush was believed to have been financing attacks on U.S. forces.
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XINHUA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE
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November 27, 2003, Thursday
SECTION: WORLD NEWS; POLITICAL
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HEADLINE: Former Iraqi military commander dies when questioned by US forces
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- A former Iraqi military commander died when he
was questioned by an American soldier, the US military said in a statement
Thursday.
The statement, issued from the western town of al-Qaim, said Maj. Gen. Abed
Hamed Mowhoush appeared to die of natural causes Wednesday.
It said the former general suddenly felt uncomfortable and lost consciousness
when he was under interrogation, and the soldier questioning him conducted a
rescue operation.
Five minutes later, a surgeon came and continued advanced cardiac life
support techniques which proved ineffective.
The on-site surgeon said Mowhoush "died of natural causes."
Coalition forces were cooperating with local tribal and religious leaders to
properly treat and transfer the body while the cause of his death was under
investigation, added the statement.
Mowhoush, a member of the Sunni tribe of Mahalowi, used to be a commander in
the former Iraqi air defence force which was among the units dissolved by the US
military in May.
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HEADLINE: Suicide car bomb kills eight, wounds dozens in Baghdad's Shiite slum
BYLINE: By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: BAGHDAD, Iraq
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A suicide driver roared through the gates of a police station in Baghdad's
biggest Shiite Muslim slum Thursday and detonated his car bomb in the courtyard,
killing eight policemen and civilians and injuring up to 45 people, authorities
reported. The driver and a passenger also were killed.
It was the latest in a string of bombings that have rocked Iraq since August,
and like the others no one claimed responsibility for the attack.
Also on Thursday:
- A 4th Infantry Division soldier was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade
attack on a U.S. convoy northeast of Baghdad, the military reported.
- A Spanish military attache was shot to death outside his residence in
Baghdad in attack by four men, one dressed as a Shiite Muslim cleric, who
knocked on his door.
- U.S. civilian administrator L. Paul Bremer marked six months since the
ouster of Saddam Hussein by recalling the fall of the regime as "one of the most
dramatic moments in Iraq's history."
The car bombing in the northeast Baghdad slum of Sadr City occurred about
8:30 a.m. as about 50 officers gathered outside the police compound to collect
their pay, authorities said. A white Oldsmobile sped up, police opened fire on
it, the bomber crashed into a parked vehicle, and the car exploded.
"I ran and got hit in the leg. When I looked back, all I could see was , fire,"
officer Khalid Sattar Jabar said from his hospital bed.
Mangled police cars were scattered around the bomb site and debris filled the
courtyard in front of the one-story building. The blast left a crater about 10
feet across and 4 feet deep, a U.S. Army officer said.
Three policemen and five civilians were killed, said Capt. Sean Kirley of the
2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Two people in the car also died, said Iraqi police
Capt. Bassem Sami.
Ambulances ferried wounded through the jammed traffic.
Sand said 28 people were wounded. Officials at Qasim al-Mubarka hospital said
they had at least nine. Police said they had reports of an additional eight
wounded at Ibn Nafees Hospital.
"It was a huge blast and everything became dark from the debris and , sand. I
was thrown to the ground," said Mohammed Adnan, 35, who sells watermelons across
from the station.
The police building has been undergoing repairs, and several dozen workers
were believed to have been inside at the time of the blast, according to U.S.
and Iraqi officials at the scene.
Angry residents thronged the area after the bombing, and scores of U.S.
soldiers surrounded the police building in Humvees. An Iraqi policeman who
pushed through the crowd was stabbed in the right arm after being set upon by
the mob, which chanted "No, no to America!" U.S. military medics treated him at
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the scene.
A nearby mosque, meanwhile, blared warnings for people to leave the area for
fear of another booby-trapped car.
Some blamed the bombing on ultraorthodox Wahhabi Sunni Muslims, religious
enemies of the Shiites; policemen said they had been threatened . by a'local
Shiite imam; and others blamed' Saddam's ousted Baathists and - indirectly - the
Americans.
"This is all the fault of the Americans. They didn't catch Saddam," said a
woman outside the Al-Mubarka Hospital.
Inside, a police sergeant who was wounded in the legs, Saad Drawal
al-Dharaji, 29, said an imam had threatened to take action against the police
station unless it turned over some officers for "punishment" for having served
under Saddam.
"We will have our revenge for this," al-Dharajissaid. He said he didn't know
the name of the clergyman. A fellow sergeant, Jassim Mohsen, 31, confirmed that
duty officers earlier this week recorded the threats, made in last Friday's
sermon and in letters to the police.
Jabar, meanwhile, mentioned another possible motive for a bombing: the
release of Shiite cleric Moayed al-Khazraji, arrested by the U.S. occupation
force Monday and accused of unspecified "criminal and anti-coalition activities.
" Protesters had rallied at the police station Wednesday to demand his release
but dispersed peacefully. "We didn't have the imam," Jabar said.
Sand said the attack was "aimed at obstructing police work at a time when the
force was becoming more•and more effective in combating crime."
Some in Iraq view police as sellouts doing the Americans' bidding:Others
associate them with Saddam's regime or his Beath Party.
The police bombing was the latest in a series that began in early August with
an attack on the Jordanian Embassy, which was followed by car and truck bombings
at the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad and at a Shiite shrine in the southern city
of Najaf. More than 120 people were killed, including a leading Shiite cleric.
The U.S. Central Command said Thursday's deadly convoy attack occurred about
2 a.m. in Baqouba, about 30 miles northeast of Baghdad. The American died of his
wounds at the 21st Combat Support Hospital, the military said.
The death brought to 92 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in hostile fire
since President Bush declared an end to major fighting on May 1. A total of 321
U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq since the war began on March 20.
The Spanish official, identified as Jose Antonio Bernal Gomez, was killed
after four men knocked on his door about 8 a.m., according to a Spanish diplomat
in Baghdad who spoke on condition of anonymity.
A school guard opposite Bernal's home said the men tried to drag him out of
his house. Bernal escaped, tried to run away and was shot in the head. He died
at the scene.
The Spanish Foreign Ministry said Bernal was an air force sergeant attached
to Spain's National Intelligence Center.
In another development, officials said U.S. soldiers conducted a major raid
Sunday near the Syrian border and detained 112 suspects, including a
high-ranking official in the former Republican Guard.
The massive raid in Al-Qa'im, about six miles from the border, ended with the
capture of a man intelligence officials said was a major general in the guard
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air defense branch.
"The general officer that they captured, Abed Hamed Mowhoush al-Mahalowi,
was reported to have links with Saddam Hussein and was a financier of '
anti-coalition activities, according to intelligence sources," a military
spokeswoman said, on condition of anonymity.
Bremer, accompanied by Iyad Allawi, president of the Governing Council for
October, spoke in central Baghdad's Paradise Square - where troops had pulled
down a statue of Saddam on April 9, the day the capital fell.
"Of course I didn't realize that I would be here six months later with the
president of the . Governing Council, but it was a very exciting moment for lovers
of freedom the world over, and as Dr. Allawi has pointed out, it's one of the
most dramatic moments in Iraq's history," Bremer said.
Allawi said that with the help of the international community, the council
"will proceed forward in very steady steps towards building democracy and a new
Iraq, which will be contributing to peace and stability in the whole region."
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HEADLINE: Coalition troops capture 112 detainees along Syrian border
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U.S. soldiers conducted a big raid near the Syrian border and detained 112
suspects, including a high-ranking official in the former Republican Guard,
officials said Thursday.
The massive raid Sunday in Al-Qa'im, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Iraq
's western border with Syria, ended with the capture of a man intelligence
officials said was a major general in the guard air defense branch.
"The general officer that they captured, Abed Hamed Mowhoush al-Mahalowi
was reported to have links with Saddam Hussein and was a financier of
anti-coalition activities, according to intelligence sources," a military
spokeswoman said, on condition of anonymity.
Troops from the 1st and 4th squadrons of the Third Armored Cavalry cordoned
off sections of the town and searched 29 houses to find "subversive elements,"
including 12 of the 13 suspects they had targ6ted for capture, she said,
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