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Senior Baath Party leader now in US custody (#8 On The Most Wanted List- King of Diamonds)
AP
| 5/22/03
Posted on 05/22/2003 7:35:57 AM PDT by kattracks
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. forces captured a former senior Baath Party leader who is No. 8 on Central Command's list of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis, American officials announced Thursday.
A brief Central Command statement said Aziz Sajih al-Numan "is now in custody of coalition forces."
He is the highest-ranking person on the list of 55 to be taken into custody so far.
Al-Numan was identified as the Baath Party's regional command chairman responsible for west Baghdad. He also is a former governor of Karbala and Najaf, according to the Central Command statement.
Central Command said he was captured by coalition forces Wednesday near Baghdad.
No other details were provided.
The highest-ranked Iraqi from the list of 55 in custody prior to al-Numan's capture was Muhammad Hamza al-Zubaydi, a former deputy prime minister and former member of the Baath Party regional command. He was taken into custody April 20.
The capture of al-Numan brought to 25 the number of Iraqis from the top-55 list who are in coalition custody, according to the Pentagon's count.
On Tuesday, Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced the surrender of Uglah Abid Saqir al-Kubaysi, No. 50 on the list. Myers said Al-Kubaysi turned himself in Monday. He was a leader of President Saddam Hussein's Baath Party in the Maysan region of southeastern Iraq.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alnuman; baathparty; captured; iraqifreedom; kingofdiamonds; kofdiamonds; mostwanted
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posted on
05/22/2003 7:35:57 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: FL_engineer
Ping!
To: kattracks
And the beat goes on.
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posted on
05/22/2003 7:39:05 AM PDT
by
smith288
(Why do liberals believe every ammendment is personal but the 2nd?)
To: kattracks; Poohbah; Howlin; BOBTHENAILER; Grampa Dave; dighton; Chancellor Palpatine; ...
Another person who will listen to Barney the Dinosaur 24/7 until he talks.
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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posted on
05/22/2003 7:39:36 AM PDT
by
hchutch
(America came, America saw, America liberated; as for those who hate us, Oderint dum Metuant)
To: kattracks
Next Chirac.
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posted on
05/22/2003 7:41:16 AM PDT
by
VRWC_minion
(Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
To: hchutch
Al-Numan?
To: hchutch; FL_engineer
Use your mouse for some appropriate music to go with this good news:
Another One Bites The DustHC, with this Clymer, I would not use Versed or a Barney Song. I would give him 1 hour to start telling all that he knows. Tell him that if he lies or doesn't start talking, he will be delivered rolled up in an Arabian Carpet to the meanest Kurds in Iraq. Then they can handle him. He will be begging to go to Gitmo.
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posted on
05/22/2003 7:45:30 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Time to visit this website and join up: http://www.georgewbush.com/)
To: kattracks
Jerry Seinfeld: Helloooooo Numan!
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posted on
05/22/2003 7:47:47 AM PDT
by
JMK
To: slate
Here you go.
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posted on
05/22/2003 7:50:26 AM PDT
by
Bahbah
To: Miss Marple
LOL
10
posted on
05/22/2003 7:51:27 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: kattracks
Which card is he?
11
posted on
05/22/2003 7:52:15 AM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Bush/Rice 2004- pray for our troops)
To: VRWC_minion
Next Chirac. How about Dascle, shouldn't he get the Barney Treatement too? Isn't he way up there on the Deck of Weasels?
Too bad we can't.
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posted on
05/22/2003 7:52:44 AM PDT
by
sr4402
To: Grampa Dave
"Tell him that if he lies or doesn't start talking, he will be delivered rolled up in an Arabian Carpet to the meanest Kurds in Iraq."
Nah. Tell him you will special deliver him to Iran. They want him as a result of the "late unpleasantness" of the 1980s. And Aziz Salih knows if he goes there the tune he is going to be listening to is "Everybody Must Get Stoned."
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posted on
05/22/2003 7:56:06 AM PDT
by
No Truce With Kings
(The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
To: Grampa Dave
Tell him that if he lies or doesn't start talking, he will be delivered rolled up in an Arabian Carpet [slathered with lard] to the meanest Kurds in Iraq.
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posted on
05/22/2003 7:56:06 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(Close the door! Are we cooling the entire neighborhood? And clean your room!)
To: netmilsmom
King of Diamonds
To: kattracks
They got Numan! They got Numan!
To: kattracks
The face cards are now being folded.
To: Miss Marple
I thought they meant this Numan.
To: kattracks
When the Russians give us Saddam, the Syrians the elite of un-bath society and France revokes the visas... we'll finally have them all. And some countries still try to call themselves friends and/or allies.
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posted on
05/22/2003 8:08:11 AM PDT
by
Jumper
To: SouthernHawk
King of Diamonds?!?!!!!
Wow!
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posted on
05/22/2003 8:10:11 AM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Bush/Rice 2004- pray for our troops)
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