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Iraq
Najim (4 of Clubs) arrested by coalition forces
2003-04-18
EFL
US troops have arrested one of Iraq's most wanted leaders after he was captured and handed over by Kurds.
In one piece? Nice restraint by the kurds
The senior Ba'ath party official was taken into US custody near Mosul yesterday.
"Please, Please, don't let them kill me"
US Brigadier General Vincent Brooks said Samir Abd al-Aziz al-Najim was arrested and has been positively identified. "He is now in Coalition control," he said, speaking from Central Command in Qatar. Al-Najim is the former Ba'ath party regional command chairman for east Baghdad and a member of Saddam Hussein's military branch.
The Waffen Baath Party...
He had served as Iraq's ambassador to Egypt, Turkey, Spain and Moscow and was one of Saddam's closest aides. "We think we have someone here - all those people on that list of 55 have information on the inner workings of the regime. That relates to weapons of mass destruction; that relates to terrorism," Brig Gen Brooks told reporters. US forces had conducted a raid on a house Wednesday looking for al-Najim, but found no one in the building after breaking down the door. He is listed as the four of clubs in the deck of cards detailing the most wanted members of Saddam regime.

Also: FoxNews - Wm. LaJeunesse interviewed a US army captain who said his troops at the baghdad palace of saddam stumbled on a cache of cash (USD $400 million - nonsequential used bills) hidden behind a false wall in an outbuilding while they were looking for a chainsaw to trim trees away from their tank antennas. Someone's gonna be REALLY disappointed
Posted by:Frank G

#2  The huge cash cache is really butch! Dozens and dozens of large metal boxes neatly packed with wads of genuine US greenbacks, not the toilet paper called Iraqi dinars. Imagine how many more stashes Saddam and his goons have around the country.

Again and again, how come the Iraqi children were starved and medically neglected when things like this were commonplace? Oh, that's right, the pressure we put on the Baathists forced them to put aside a few dollars for a rainy day! If the nasty old US wasn't so gungho about enforcing the UN sanctions Iraq would just be another Switzerland. And everyone would have peace and fluffy bunnies!
Posted by: Craig   2003-04-18 21:37:46  

#1  This piece just ran in the Washington Post. They also included a section on how Shiites are protesting in Baghdad against US presence, telling the US to leave before they (the Shiites) force the troops out. This is troubling. What do you suppose is going to happen here? On a lighter note, the piece also mentions that monkeys at the local zoo were freed to roam the streets. How the heck are they going to find them? They'll fit right in with the local population. Some of them will probably be imams by next week.
Posted by: joe   2003-04-18 09:58:59  

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