A NEPHEW OF DEPOSED IRAQI PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN BEIRUT BY INTERPOL ON SUSPICION OF CRIMES AGAINST THE IRAQI PEOPLE, IT WAS CONFIRMED WEDNESDAY, DPA REPORTED. LEBANESE SECURITY SOURCES CONFIRMED TO DEUTSCHE PRESSE-AGENTUR DPA THAT SABAAWI WAS ARRESTED WITHIN THE PAST 48 HOURS AS HE WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY. THE SOURCES ADDED THAT SABAAWI'S CASE WAS REFERRED TO GENERAL PROSECUTOR SAEED MIRZA. BASHAR'S FATHER SABAAWI IBRAHIM AL-HUSSEIN TESTIFIED ON MONDAY IN THE TRIAL OF THE OLDER MAN'S BROTHER BARZAN AL-TIKRITI AND HALF BROTHER SADDAM HUSSEIN. SABAAWI HIMSELF WAS ARRESTED ON THE SYRIAN BORDER IN FEBRUARY 2005 ON CHARGES OF FUNDING THE INSURGENCY. BASHAR'S BROTHER AYMAN, ALSO IS ACCUSED OF BEING INVOLVED IN THE INSURGENCY, WAS ARRESTED ONE YEAR AGO, ON MAY 2005 DURING AN OPERATION IN SADDAM'S HOMETOWN OF TIKRIT.