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Arrests at Iraqi Interior Ministry
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Arrests at Iraqi Interior Ministry
Posted: 05:52 AM ET
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — More than 20 officers of the Iraqi Interior Ministry were arrested this week for their alleged links to the outlawed al-Awda party, a ministry spokesman said Thursday.

The highest-ranking person taken into custody was a brigadier general, according to Major General Abdul Karim Khalaf. He said the others were low-ranking officers.

The al-Awda party is a successor to Saddam Hussein’s Baath party, which was banned after the former Iraqi leader was overthrown after the U.S. military invasion in 2003. The party ruled Iraq for 35 years.