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For Eminent Sunni, Lessons in Weakness - washingtonpost.com

For Eminent Sunni, Lessons in Weakness - washingtonpost.com: "By Ernesto Londono
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 10, 2007; A01

BAGHDAD, Feb. 9 -- Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Salam Z. al-Zobaee's cousin has been in government custody for eight months.
He hasn't been charged, Zobaee said, and the formal inquiries he himself has made to have the oil engineer released, or at least get the case before a judge, have been rebuffed.
'He was detained because they looked at him like he didn't belong here,' Zobaee said during a recent interview in his spacious office in the fortified Green Zone. 'He has been in detention for eight months -- and I am a deputy prime minister.'"

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