BARZAN IBRAHIM AL-TIKRITI ; Saddam Hussein's half-brother, intelligence chief and intimate ally from the first days of Baath rule

From: The Independent - London | Date: January 16, 2007| Author: Adel Darwish | Copyright information

When Saddam Hussein was plotting his way in the 1970s to take over the Baath party that ruled Iraq, his younger halfbrother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti was in charge of the intelligence service.

Barzan supported his half-brother's underground activities without the knowledge of the government. Sad-dam, as Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, was busy establishing a network of secret organisations accountable to no one but himself. The core was groups, styled decades ear...

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