Getting warmer.....The details are sparse, but from the various press reports I pieced together it seems that Hassan Ibrahim Farhan Zaydi was involved in coordinating the Islamist efforts of Abu Mussab Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq with former Saddam loyalists and Baath party members who are pan-Arabists but secular. The announcement came in the middle of a press conference by Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi where he also announced that the trials of former regime members will begin next week. The Courier:

He added that an alleged senior figure among the foreign-inspired Islamists who are believed to be making common cause in an anti-American insurgency with secular former Saddam loyalists had also been caught.

"In addition to the members of the former regime, there are terrorist elements that came from abroad," Mr Allawi said.

"A person called Hassan Ibrahim Farhan Zaydi was killed. He is one of Zarqawi's people. Two of his aides were detained.

"Of course he was killed in a confrontation. These were involved in major acts of destruction."

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