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Iraq releases former top Saddam loyalist

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

AUGUST 4, 2010 15:28

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government on Wednesday released from prison a top Saddam Hussein loyalist after he was cleared of charges of helping the former regime punish opponents by draining the country's fabled marshlands.

Khamis Sirhan al-Muhammad was No. 54 of 55 on a former US military list of most-wanted Saddam officials. He was a Baath Party regional chairman and militia commander from Anbar Province.

A spokesman for the Iraqi High Tribunal, Judge Mohammed Abdul-Sahib Yaseen, said Wednesday that Muhammad was recently released from a prison just outside Baghdad. He gave no details.

Muhammad was captured in January 2004.

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