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Can anyone help me find the info concerning the deal that Al-Ahmed offered to Allawi: something along the lines of this: If Allawi would permit the Ba'ath party in the elections, Al-Ahmed could stop the resistance in SIX HOURS?? I remember reading that somewhere, but where - oops! hmmm.

A senior Baath party organiser and Saddam Hussein aide, Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed, has been named by western intelligence officials as one of the key figures directing the Sunni insurgency from his hiding-place in neighbouring Syria.Sources have told The Observer that Younis al-Ahmed - who has had a $1 million price tag placed on his head by the US - is one of between 20 and 50 senior Baath party figures based in Syria who, they believe, are involved in organising the guerrilla war against the US-led multi-national forces in Iraq and against the new Iraqi security forces. The naming of...

U.S. Says Hold Former Iraqi Interior MinisterSat August 9, 2003 10:41 AM ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Saturday Saddam Hussein's interior minister, number 29 on its list of most wanted of 55, was in its custody. "Mahmoud Diyab al-Ahmed, number 29 on the coalition's list of most wanted government officials, is now under custody of coalition forces," Central Command said in a statement. "The former Iraqi Minister of Interior surrendered to coalition forces yesterday." The U.S. military had already announced his capture in July, but it was not immediately clear whether this was the same person....

<p>BAGHDAD &#8212; U.S. forces captured Iraq's swashbuckling former interior minister, while a top-level Ba'ath Party official surrendered, the latest arrests from a list of 55 most-wanted fugitives from Saddam Hussein's ousted regime.</p> <p>Thirty-four of those on the list have been detained. But despite a huge bounty and a feverish search, the hunt is still missing its biggest quarry: Saddam and his two sons.</p>

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Top Iraqi cabinet ministers, one of them brandishing an assault rifle, denounced the United States on Friday as a "superpower of villains" and said that U.S.-led invaders would be incinerated in Baghdad. "Victory is guaranteed," Interior Minister Mahmoud Diyab al-Ahmed told a news conference, defiantly waving a shiny Kalashnikov and standing in front of a picture of President Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi flag. He and Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf blasted President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as criminals for launching an invasion overnight. "They are a superpower of villains," Sahaf said of the...