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al-Zubaidi Nabbed
Mohammad Hamza al-Zubaidi, one of the 55 Iraqi terrosrists kleptocrats officials wanted by the United States, was taken into custody by US troops, US Central Command said in a statement. A member of the Iraqi National Congress, Haidar Ahmad had told AFP earlier that the Free Iraqi Forces (FIF) "captured Mohammad Hamza al-Zubaidi in Hilla," 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Baghdad, "and handed him over to US troops."
| "For us? Oh, you shouldn't have..." |
Zubaidi, the queen of spades in the "most wanted" deck of cards issued by the US military, was a former member of the Revolutionary Command Council, the all-important decision-making body of Saddam Hussein's regime.
The Queen of spades; hmm⊠that's 13 points.
The capture of Zubaidi brings to eight the number of former Iraqi officials arrested since Washington issued the playing cards with the order to capture or kill on April 11.- The INC said Sunday that Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, Jamal Mustafa Abdullah Sultan had given himself up, but the information was not confirmed by the US military.
- The US military on Saturday captured Iraq's former higher education and scientific research minister Human Abd al-Khaliq Abd al-Ghafar.
- Former finance minister and deputy prime minister Hikmat al-Azzawi was captured April 18,
- while Samir al-Aziz al-Najim, a former oil minister and senior Baath party leader, was apprehended a day before.
- Two of Saddam's half-brothers, Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti and Watban Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti, were captured on April 17 and 13 respectively.
- General Amir al-Saadi, a rocket specialist and Saddam's chief weapons advisor, surrendered to coalition troops April 12.
Posted by: KP 2003-04-21 |
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