Baghdad, June 07: The US-led administration in Iraq announced today it had arrested the former deputy commander of the Iraqi police on suspicion of corruption, intimidation, and attempting to reorganise Saddam Hussein's Baath Party in the reformed Iraqi police. General Mohammad Habib al-Mashadani had been a senior Baath Party official under the old regime and was repeatedly told by coalition troops to keep away from the police stations being reopened here, a spokesman said.
"He was arrested last night and will be detained for further questioning," the spokesman told reporters.
"He was trying to undermine coalition efforts to reform the police," he said. Bureau Report