GWT: WRAP File of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, believed to be under US attack

(11 Apr 2003)
APTN File
Amman - 29 November 1998
1. Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti walking down corridor at the airport
2. Barzan speaking to reporters
STORYLINE:
Coalition warplanes bombed a building early on Friday believed to be occupied by Saddam Hussein's half brother, a close adviser who allegedly helped stash billions of dollars abroad for the Iraqi president.
US Central Command said forces launched six satellite-guided bombs at a building near Ar Ramadi, about 60 miles (95 kilometres) west of Baghdad, in an attack on Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti.
In a statement, the military said the 0545 GMT attack was part of "a continuing effort to degrade the Hussein regime" and that damage assessment was ongoing.
US Marine Major Brad Bartelt, a Central Command spokesman, said the building targeted on Friday was an intelligence service operating site.
Al-Tikriti was allegedly the chief organiser of a clandestine group of companies and funds handling the Iraqi leader's wealth, according to the Coalition for International Justice, a nonprofit organisation based in The Hague, Netherlands, and in Washington.
He was chief of Saddam's secret police in the 1980s and then Iraq's ambassador to UN offices in Geneva for nine years.
While in Geneva, he set up the Iraqi president's financial network, the organisation says.
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