More than 20 employees of Iraq’s Ministry of the Interior have been arrested on allegations that they were plotting to revive Saddam Hussein’s outlawed Baath party.
“Thirty traffic policemen and seven police charged with security at the interior ministry have been detained for an attempted coup,” the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
He denied initial information that the ministry’s intelligence chief General Ahmad Abul Raghif was among those detained, saying that on the contrary, it was his service which carried out the arrests.
