[knak]

if duplicate....delete

[green team 1999]

[green team 1999]

Iraqi Kurds have handed over to US-led forces one of the most senior officials on America's most wanted list of Iraqi officials.
Samir al-Aziz al-Najem, Regional Command Chairman for east Baghdad for Saddam Hussein's Baath party, was captured in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, US Central Command said.

He was on the US top 55 list - handed out to US forces as playing cards to aid the search - of most wanted Iraqi officials, as the four of clubs.

"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," US Army Brigadier-General Vincent Brooks said.

His capture comes a day after US-led special forces detained Saddam Hussein's half-brother, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, in Baghdad.

Key insider

Mr Najem, a veteran Baath party official who was Iraq's minister of oil until earlier this year, Saddam Hussein's chief of staff for several years following the 1991 Gulf War

[MizSterious]

I think yours is the first with an actual news article. An earlier one on the topic has mostly smart*ss remarks, nothing informative. (Last time I looked, anyway.)

[visualops]

I posted to the Mod to just delete my thread, since it's turned to junk.
I am proud I managed a breaking news story though lol

[Right_in_Virginia]

An Iraqi official who had been involved in the country's suspected nerve gas program has surrendered to U.S. forces and was being interrogated,

Ok..start spilling the beans, already!!

[gcruse]

If true, this could be vey series, and hugh!