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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
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