Joint Iraqi Force detains 2 high-ranking officers in the former Iraqi Army

SALAH AL-DIN / IraqiNews.com: Two high-ranking officers of Iraq’s former Army have been detained, together with two other persons, by a joint Iraqi-U.S. Force that came from Baghdad on Sunday, a police source in Tikrit said.   “A Joint Iraqi-U.S. Army force, that came from Baghdad, has detained two high-ranking former Iraqi Army officers, Lt-Brigadier, Abdul-Rahman Dalli and Lt-Brigadier, Hussein Helan, at their houses in Daur township, 25 km to the northeast of Tikrit, along with the detention of two civilians,” the police source told IraqiNews.com news agency.   He added that the said force had been looking for “five other officers, but it failed to find them, whilst it drove the detained officers and persons to an unknown destination.   Tikrit, the center of Salah al-Din Province, is 175 km to the north of Baghdad.   SKH (TS)/SR 873