BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi prison chief and his deputy were under arrest on Sunday after Saddam Hussein's nephew, accused of funding the Sunni insurgency, escaped jail a day earlier, sparking a huge manhunt by police.
Ayman al-Sabawi, the son of Saddam's half brother, Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti, escaped Badoush prison near the northern city of Mosul on Saturday after the jail's night watch commander told colleagues he was transferring him to another prison.
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