 The Iraqi government has offered a $1 million reward for the capture of a former official in Saddam Hussain's deposed regime who is accused of financing and recruiting foreign insurgents to launch attacks in Iraq. The official, Abdul Baqi Abdul Karim Al Sadoun, headed several Baathist organisations during Saddam's rule, the government said in a statement yesterday. He already is wanted for crimes against humanity, accused of supervising the killing 500 people during an uprising by Shiites in the south in 1991 at the end of the Gulf War, during which US forces ended Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the statement said. During the current Iraq war, Al Sadoun is accused of recruiting and financing foreign terrorists in eastern and central Iraq, and is believed to be responsible for attacks against Iraqi civilians and police in the Iraqi cities of Nassiriya and Basra in the south, and Diyala in the northeast, the government said. |