Syrian officials in Damascus confirmed the transfer , and said the half-brother , Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan al-Tikriti , once the widely feared head of Iraq 's two most powerful security agencies , was one of a group of officials from the former Iraqi government who were arrested in Syria and delivered into Iraqi custody .
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