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Baghdad - Four men described as cousins of toppled Iraqi president Saddam Hussein were arrested Saturday with other members of the former regime. Bernard Kerrick said the coalition "received confidential information ... that gave us the whereabouts and location of several members of the former regime who were involved in human rights violations. Four of the men that were arrested were picked up in the last 12 hours and were cousins of Saddam. They were members of Saddam's personal security force. We found a number of photos during the seizure and arrest that showed these people, these four cousins, allegedly cousins, torturing a man." Kerrick added that an investigation was under way. Kerrick did not name any of the arrested men or say where or under what circumstances they were detained. In a separate statement on Saturday, the US military said it had apprehended two "local opposition leaders", Anwar Al-Asaw and Bashir Ahmed Thanun Al-Dulaymi, in the northern city of Mosul. |