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Iraq: Where's the Wealth?
As a young man, Barzan al-Tikriti was "excessively violent and lazy," say U.S. officials. As chief spy for his half-brother Saddam Hussein in the early 1980s, Barzan's name was synonymous with cruelty: intelligence reports say he drank beer while watching prisoners being tortured. Later, Barzan allegedly became the Tikriti clan's chief money washer. The Bush administration hopes his capture last week, along that of former Iraqi finance minister Hikmat Mizban Al-Azzawi, will lead to millions of dollars in Iraqi wealth stolen by Saddam--which the U.S. hopes to spend on rebuilding Iraq.
After serving as head of Iraqi intelligence ...