Joint US-Iraqi forces arrest high-ranking former Iraqi Army Officer

SALAH AL-DIN / IraqiNews.com: A Joint Iraqi-U.S.force has arrested an former high-ranking Iraqi Army officer in Dhiloyiya township of Salah al-Din Province, in an air-landing operation on Wednesday, a police source reported. “An Joint Iraqi-American force has carried out an air-landing operation in al-Mashro’a village, 5 km to the east of Dhiloyiya township of Salah al-Din Province, arresting Staff Colonel in the former Iraqi Army, Sami al-Jibouri, together with his son and drove them to an unknown destination,” the police source told IraqiNews.com news agency, adding that the operation took place “without coordination with the security forces in the area.” Meanwhile, the detained officer’s brother, Abdul-Latif Kamel, said that “At 2 am this morning 4 U.S.planes, carrying Iraqi soldiers have landed the soldiers on my brother’s house, began to beat him and force him and his son to put-off their clothes, chained them and drove them to an unknown destination,” adding that his brother had been retired from the former Army early 1990s. “I shall raise a court case against the force that attacked and detained my brother, because it did not carry a judicial warrant to arrest him and his son,” Kamel added. Tikrit, the center of Salah al-Din Province, is 175 km to the north of Baghdad.