Ask and ye shall receive:
Twenty of the 55 wanted members of Saddam's inner circle are in custody. One other was reported killed. Drumroll, Please!
- No. 10 Muzahim Sa'b Hassan al-Tikriti, who headed Iraq's air defenses under Saddam. Queen of diamonds.
- No. 16 Abdel Tawab Mullah Huweish, director of the Office of Military Industrialization and a deputy prime minister in charge of arms development. Ten of hearts.
- No. 18 Muhammad Hamza al-Zubaydi, former member of Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council and central Euphrates regional commander. Played key role in brutal suppression of Shiite Muslim uprising of 1991. Queen of spades.
- No. 41 Mizban Khadr Hadi, appointed commander of one of four military regions Saddam established on the eve of the war. Nine of hearts.
- No. 42 Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf, only Kurd among Saddam's hierarchy and one of Saddam's two vice presidents. Nine of diamonds.
- No. 43 Tariq Aziz, former deputy prime minister. Eight of spades.
- No. 44 Walid Hamed Tawfiq al-Tikriti, former governor of Basra province and member of Saddam's clan. Eight of clubs.
- No. 45 Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-Azzawi, finance minister and deputy prime minister. Eight of diamonds.
- No. 47 Amer Mohammed Rashid, oil minister and a former general who led Iraq's top-secret missile program. Six of spades.
- No. 48 Muhammad Mahdi al-Salih, former trade minister. Six of hearts.
- No. 49 Lt. Gen. Hossam Mohammed Amin, national monitoring director. Six of clubs.
- No. 51 Watban Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti, Saddam's half brother. Five of spades.
- No. 52 Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti, another half brother of Saddam. Five of clubs.
- No. 53. Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, a top biological weapons scientist known as "Mrs. Anthrax" and the only woman on the list. Five of hearts.
- No. 54 Abd al-Khaliq Abd al-Gafar, Iraq's minister of higher education and scientific research. Four of hearts.
- No. 55 Lt. Gen. Amer al-Saadi, who officials say led Iraq's unconventional weapons programs. Seven of diamonds.
Reported killed:
No. 5 Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" and the "Butcher of Kurdistan" for his role in a 1987-88 campaign in which chemical weapons were used to kill tens of thousands of Kurds in northern Iraq. King of spades. No sign of Sammy & Sons, Inc. I have not heard anything about if any body parts came out of that Baghdad crater.
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I have a running list on my site, with pictures of the cards (regular cards, not the special CentCom cards) for those who wish to play Ba'ath Poker, a cross-reference chart showing how the list of 55 relates to the deck of 52 (not very well), and graphs showing the rank of those captured against time of capture. They're all in this file: just keep scrolling down.
What's weird, and disturbing, is how the captures break down: we have only 6 of the top 39, and all but 2 of the bottom 16. (This is on the list of 55, but the deck of cards is similar: only two face cards are in custody.)
It looks like maybe Syria (or France) decided to let the 'Top 40' in and turn the rest away, or something like that. (The fact that we've caught a few of the Top 40 doesn't disprove this: even with a promise of safety in Syria, they would still have to get to the border.)
I'll be blogging something along these lines later tonight.
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