Former Iraqi Defense Minister Surrenders-Mediator

Reuters | September 19, 2003

[HAL9000]

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's former Defense Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmed, number 27 on Washington's wanted list of former top officials under Saddam Hussein, has surrendered to U.S. forces, a mediator said on Friday.

Dawood Bagistani, a local human rights official who has acted as go-between in talks with Ahmed, told Reuters the surrender would be officially announced later at a news conference in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

[GrandmaPatriot]

Oh, the quagmire we're in (as the dems keep saying).

[HAL9000]

Saddam's defense minister surrenders to American general in Mosul

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Former Gen. Sultan Hashim Ahmad, Iraq's last defense minister under Saddam Hussein, surrendered to the American general in charge of the north of the country Friday after weeks of negotiations, a Kurdish mediator said.

Dawood Bagistani, who arranged the surrender to Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, said Ahmad was handed over "with great respect" and was with his family at the time.

[kayak]

:-)

[FairOpinion]

That's great! We must have about half of the most wanted on the playing cards by now, and numerous others, who may not have been on the cards, but were important nevertheless.

Mayb this guy will know and tell us about the WMD.

[Terp]

[yonif]

that's a big head

[Tony in Hawaii]

Dagwood?

[Consort]

He looks like a cross between Gabe Kaplan and Avery Schreiber.

[Once-Ler]

Hashim is the 8 of Hearts. That gives 4 of a kind for the 8s.

I believe we are down to only 14 bad guys still at large.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/967775/posts?page=172#172

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Unfortunately there are around 200 on the list. The top 55 on the cards were just the worst.

[Once-Ler]

I was responding to FairOpinion who wrote "We must have about half of the most wanted on the playing cards by now."

I was not clear. Sorry.

[BurbankKarl]

kind of looks like Bustamante...

[Future Useless Eater]

Recent additions:
        9/19/03 - Sultan Hashim Ahmed
        Iraqi Defense Minister

Note: Our numbers killed or captured should be higher by TWO.
On numerous recent occasions, GW, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld have each said:
"We have already captured or killed 42 of the 55 most-wanted former Iraqi leaders"
(...so the numbers 'SHOULD' now be 43 of the 55, killed or captured.)
Could someone please contact CENTCOM and ask them to update their
Iraqi 55 Most Wanted STATUS to match our leaders' speeches please?

Iraq's 55 14 Most Wanted Scoreboard - - and Freeper additions See the DOD website for photos. Note their joker card has an Iraqi SURNAME explanation         (Revised: 9/19am)
	Name	Position	Status
	Saddam Hussein	President of Iraq/CINC of Military	Possibly Dead
	Qusay Hussein	SSO, SRG & RGFC Commander	KILLED 7/22/03
	Uday Hussein	Saddam Fedayeen Commander [the older "crazy rapist" son]	KILLED 7/22/03
	Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti	Presidential Secretary (WMD Release Authority)	Captured 6/18/03
	Ali Hasan al-Majid [aka: "Chemical Ali"]	Pres. Advisor, Fmr South Reg Cmdr	Captured 8/21/03
	Izzat IBRAHIM al-Duri	Vice Chair of the RCC, North Reg Cmdr	At large**
	Hani Abd Latif Tilfa al-Tikriti	SSO Director	At large**
	Aziz Salih al-Numan	BP Regional Cmdr/Cmdr BP Militia Reg Cmd	Captured 5/22/03 [Earlier reports of his death were bogus]
	Muhammad Hamza al-ZUBAYDI [aka Saddam's "Shiite Thug"]	Central Euphrates Reg Cmdr "One of Saddam's most ruthless war criminals" -Clinton Admin	Captured 4/21/03
	Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti	RG Secretary General	In Custody 5/17/03
	Barzan Abd al-Ghafur Sulayman Majid al-Tikriti	SRG Commander	Captured 7/23/03
	Muzahim Sa'b Hasan al-Tikriti	Air Defense Force Commander	Captured 4/23/03
	Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al-Sattar Muhammad al-Tikriti	Armed Forces Chief of Staff	Captured 5/12/03
	Sayf al-Din Fulayyih Hassan Taha al-Rawi	RGFC Chief	At large(?)** [or maybe dead? see note2]
	Rafi Abd Latif al Tilfah	DGS Director	At large
	Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti	IIS Director	At large**
	Hamid Raja Shalah al-Tikriti	Air Force Commander	Captured 6/14/03
	Latif Nussayif al-Jasim al-Dulaymi	Dep Chmn Baath Party	Captured 6/10/03
	Abd al Tawab Mullah Huwaysh	OMI Director (WMD Production)	Captured 5/02/03
	Taha Yasin RAMADAN al-Jizrawi	Vice President	Captured 8/19/03
	Rukan Razuki abd al-Ghafar al-Majid Sulayman al-Tikriti	Chief of Tribal Affairs	At large
	Jamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti	Deputy Chief of Tribal Affairs [Saddam's son-in-law]	In Custody 4/20/03
	Mizban Khadr Hadi	RCC Member, Reg CDR Central Euphrates Region U.S. Army's V Corps headquarters said Mizban Khadr Hadi, ... was captured Thursday [5/01/03] in the area of Baghdad controlled by the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division.	Captured 5/01/03 In Custody 7/09/03
	Taha Muhyi al-Din MARUF	Vice President and RCC Member	Captured 5/02/03
	Tariq Mikhail AZIZ	Deputy Prime Minister	In Custody 4/24/03
	Walid Hamid Tawfiq al-Tikriti	Governor of Basrah Governate	In Custody 4/29/03
	Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-Azzawi	Dep Prime Minister, Economics & Finance Min.	Captured 4/19/03
	Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai	Minister of Defense	In Custody 9/19/03
	Mahmud Dhiyab al-Ahmad	Minister of the Interior, He was previously reported CAPTURED on July 9th by Centcom	Captured 7/09/03 In Custody 8/09/03
	Ayad Futayyih Khalifa al-Rawi	Al Quds Force Chief of Staff	Captured 6/05/03
	Zuhayr Talib Abd al-Sattar al-Naqib	DMI Director	Captured 4/23/03
	Amir Hamudi Hasan al-Sadi	Presidential Scientific Adviser/NMD Dir Gen [chemical and biological programs]	In Custody 4/12/03
	Amir Rashid Muhammad al-Ubaydi	Former Oil Minister [aka "Missle Man" married to "Dr. Germ"]	In Custody 4/28/03
	Husam Muhammad AMIN al-Yasin	National Monitoring Director	Captured 4/27/03
	Muhammad Mahdi al-Salih	Minister of Trade	Captured 4/23/03
	Sabawi Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti	Baath Party, Saddam Maternal Half Brother	At large **
	Watban Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti	Baath Party, Saddam Half Brother	Captured 4/13/03
	Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti	Baath Party, Saddam Half Brother	Captured 4/16/03
	Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash	Party Youth & Trade Bureau Chairman	In Custody 5/05/03
	Abd al-Baqi abd al-Karim Abdallah al-Sadun	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Baghdad	At large
	Muhammad Zimam Abd al-Razzaq al-Sadun	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Ta'mim & Ninawa Gov	At large
	Samir abd al-Aziz al-Najim	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Diyal Gov.	Captured 4/17/03
	Humam Abd al-Khaliq Abd al-Ghafur	Min of Higher Education & Scientific Research	Captured 4/20/03
	Yahya Abdallah al-Ubaydi	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Basrah Gov.	At large
	Sa'd Abd al-Majid al-Faysal	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Salah ad Din Gov.	Captured 5/27/03
	Sayf al-Din al-Mashhadani	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Muthanna Gov.	Captured 5/27/03
	Fadil Mahmud Gharib (aka: Gharib Muhammad Fazel) al-Mashaikh	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Babil/Karbala Gov.	Captured 5/13/03
	Muhsin Khadr al-Khafaji	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Qadasiyah Gov.	At large
	Rashid Taan Kazim	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Anbar Governate	At large
	Ugla Abid Saqr al-Kubaysi	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Maysan Governate	In Custody 5/20/03
	Ghazi Hammud al-Ubaydi	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Wasit Gov.	In Custody 5/07/03
	Adil Abdallah Mahdi	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Dhi Qar Governate	Captured 5/15/03
	Nayif Shindakh Thamir	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Salah ad Din Governate	At large(?)An Iraqi TV report said he was KILLED in the battle for Najaf
	Khamis Sirhan al Muhammad	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Karbala Governate NOT WIDELY REPORTED, but per FoxNews: "Senior defense officials said Monday morning that No. 54 of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis has been taken into custody -- Khamis Sirhan al Muhammad, a Baath Party chairman and commander of the Baath militia in the Karbala Governate. Muhammad was captured in raids over the weekend, along with another on the wider list of 200." (CENTCOM has not yet updated their website with this capture.)	Captured 8/04/03
	Husayn Al Awadi	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Ninawa Governate	Captured 6/10/03
- - - Freeper Additions - - -
	Farouk Hijazi	#3 in Mukhabarat Iraqi intelligence ["biggest fish so far" -CIA]	Captured 4/25/03
	["unnamed associate of"] Abu Musab Zarqawi	a leading Al Qaeda operative	Captured 4/29/03
	Abu Abbas	Convicted Terrorist/Murderer - Leader Palestine Liberation Front	Captured 4/15/03
	Ahmed Walid Raguib al-Baz	Terrorist - 1st Lieutenant Palestine Liberation Front	Killed 3/20/03
	Khala Khadr Al-Salahat	Member of the Abul Nidal terrorist organization	In Custody 4/18/03
	Abdul Rahman Yasin	Indicted fugitive from 1993 WTC bombing, $25 Million reward	At large
	Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani	former Iraq Consul, met with Mohammed Atta in Prague shortly before 9/11	Captured 7/02/03
	Ahmad Hikmat Shakir	an Iraqi national and al-Qaeda operative, with connections to the 1993 WTC bombing, a Jan 2000 al Qaeda summit in Malaysia, the Oct 2000 USS Cole bombing, and the 9/11 mass murder. (Newsweek) Shakir fled back to Baghdad just before the war.	At large
	Ali Hussein Habib	Iraqi airforce general	Killed by the regime ~3/20/03
	Khaled Abdallah	a senior official of Saddam's Mukhabarat secret police	In Custody 4/20/03
	Major Khalid Hmood	Head of Iraqi intelligence during the war and one of Saddam's top bodyguards,	In Custody 4/20/03
	Salim Sa'id Khalaf al-Jumayli	former Chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service American Desk	Captured 4/23/03
	"Son of Ham" [apple falls close to the tree]	Son of Hamza (Q-of-Spades - one of Saddam's most ruthless war criminals)	Captured 4/21/03
	Luay Khayrallaha [Saddam's brother-in-law]	#152 on the top 200 most-wanted list. Iraqi intelligence and security leader	Captured 5/19/03
	Mulhana Hamood Abdul Jabar [Saddam's brother-in-law]	caught with $300,000, three AK-47 rifles, and a rocket-propelled grenade	Captured 5/25/03
	Jaffar al-Jaffer	physicist & father of Iraq's nuclear WMD program	In Custody 4/13/03
	Imad Husayn Abdallah al-Ani	former VX nerve agent developer	In Custody 4/18/03
	Rihab Taha [aka "Dr. Germ"]	architect of Iraq's bio WMD program	In Custody 5/12/03
	Mohammed Saeed Kazim al-Sahaf [aka: "Comical Ali"] [aka: "Baghdad Bob"]	Minister of Information [wanted for DNC spokesperson]	Captured 6/25/03 [reportedly questioned by U.S. forces and released] On Administrative Leave
	**  Nine fugitives supposedly hiding in Syria? This seems to have been a smokescreen as FOUR have since been caught in or near Baghdad.           Note2: Also, Al-Rawi (J-of-clubs) was reported by an Islamic newspaper as murdered                 by Saddam and Qusay on 4/08/03... one day after the bombing of Saddam at the restaurant. If someone else updates this list, please bump the revision at the top and ping FL_Engineer You can click here to see if there is a pointer to a newer revision.

   

[Future Useless Eater]

UPDATED here - Iraq's 55 14 Most Wanted Scoreboard

[MEG33]

Thanks for the heads up!

[sistergoldenhair]

Excellent.
Thanks for the ping.

[bart99]

Thanks for the ping.

A couple Kings and a few Jacks would round the top out nicely......... as well as the body of the Ace of Spades.

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"surrendered to the American general in charge of the north of the country Friday after weeks of negotiations, a Kurdish mediator said.

Dawood Bagistani, who arranged the surrender to Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, said Ahmad was handed over "with great respect" and was with his family at the time. "

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1. Why weeks of negotiation? We don't we just go in and take him/them into custody when we find them.
2. With his family?? Wonder if other missing cards are with thier familiy? Do they have phone books in Iraq?

[kattracks]

Saddam's Defense Chief in Hands of U.S. Forces

Sept. 19 — By Khudeir Majeed

MOSUL (Reuters) - Iraq's former defense minister, seen at Saddam Hussein's side in what is thought to have been the ousted leader's last public appearance, surrendered to U.S. forces on Friday, an Iraqi mediator said.

Sultan Hashim Ahmed, number 27 on Washington's wanted list of former top Iraqi officials, turned himself over to U.S. troops in a house in the northern city of Mosul, local human rights official Dawood Bagistani told a news conference.

The news was a boost for U.S. forces in Iraq after a night in which three soldiers of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division were killed and two wounded by guerrillas near Saddam's hometown of Tikrit. The ambush was the deadliest in weeks against U.S. troops, who face around a dozen attacks a day.

A U.S. commander said American forces captured 40 suspected Iraqi guerrillas in the night-long battle.

"We feel confident we now have under our control the individuals who attacked our patrol," Colonel James Hickey said.

Ahmed's surrender means 40 of the 55 most-wanted former senior Iraqis have now been declared killed or in U.S. custody.

Although regarded as a figurehead in the Iraqi army while real power rested with Saddam, Ahmed can be seen in footage of the former president waving to crowds said to have been taken in a Baghdad suburb on April 9, the day U.S. forces took the city.

His surrender is bound to fuel fresh speculation about whether U.S. forces are closing in on Saddam, particularly as his sons, Qusay and Uday, were killed in a gunbattle with American troops in Mosul in July.

U.S. forces in the city have also repeatedly been rumored to be close to capturing Izzat Ibrahim, number six on the wanted list and vice chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council which was at the center of Saddam's power structure.

"At eight o'clock this morning (midnight EDT), Sultan Hashim Ahmed and his family surrendered to coalition forces," mediator Bagistani said.

"AN INNOCENT MAN"

Bagistani said Ahmed had given himself up after negotiations in which the U.S. agreed that he was innocent of "crimes." There was no immediate U.S. comment.

"This is a moral commitment by the U.S. government. Our role was only to transfer him peacefully," Bagistani said. "It is true he served the Iraqi government but he is an innocent man and we want you (the U.S.) to treat him honestly."

In the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam chose Ahmed to head the Iraqi delegation at cease-fire talks near the border with Kuwait.

Ahmed is the eight of hearts in a pack of playing cards issued to U.S. troops to help them identify fugitive Iraqi leaders. Saddam himself is the ace of spades.

In the night-long battle near Tikrit, American soldiers were trying to find a rocket-propelled grenade launch site when they came under attack.

The deaths brought to 76 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in action in Iraq since President Bush declared major combat over on May 1.

The daily guerrilla attacks and the mounting cost of occupying Iraq have prompted an American drive to gain a new U.N. resolution that would encourage more countries to supply troops and cash to stabilize Iraq.

But Bush told reporters at his Camp David retreat outside Washington that he did not expect a U.N. Security Council agreement on such a resolution before he attends the U.N. General Assembly in New York next week.

Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, told reporters, however, that Washington saw the meeting as a chance to bridge differences after the bitter debate before the U.S.-led invasion in March.

At the United Nations, diplomats said Secretary-General Kofi Annan was demanding that the world body should have a clear and independent mandate in Iraq before large numbers of political staff return to the country.

Many withdrew after a bomb attack on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad which killed at least 22 people.

Two of the strongest opponents of the war, France and Germany, expressed fears of a worsening security situation in Iraq, and called for a handover of political power to Iraqis.

French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said in Berlin they could help train Iraqi soldiers and police, but France also insisted Washington hand power to an Iraqi government in "months, not years."

[putupon]

Dagwood?

Bumisteadi?

[martin_fierro]

Tom Dasshole is Deeply Saddened.^tm

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks for the post Hal, and the updated chart, Fl_engineer. Good way to end the week.

Official (bare bones) report from CENTCOM:

8 ANOTHER “IRAQI TOP 55” IN COALITION CUSTODY

Details!

 Thanks, Tonkin!

If you want on or off my PRO-coalition ping list, please Freepmail me. Warning: it is a high volume ping list on good days. (Most days are good days).

[Grampa Dave]

He does look like Cruz Busta Our Wallets with more taxes and more taxes.

[Arrowhead1952]

Unfortunately there are around 200 on the list. The top 55 on the cards were just the worst.

Looks like it's time to start a new deck of cards.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Actually the number we have is closer to 40.

[MizSterious]

GP, not just the dems. Freepers too. Well, maybe dem moles.

[MizSterious]

Oh, c'mon, FO--you know there are no WMDS. Just ask any dem--or a number of freepers, for that matter. Saddam was just this really nice guy who held tea parties in his gardens.

(Sorry for the sarcasm, was just arguing with a freeper who insists there were no AlQaeda training bases in Iraq. Boggles the mind...)

[MizSterious]

His picture makes me wonder if he surrendered because he ran out of Twinkies.

[clintonh8r]

Whatever happened to Tiny Tom? He seems to have disappeared.

[blackie]

We're smoking them out and rounding them up ~ one at a time!

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[Bigg Red]

Wow! Our guys are phenomenal!

[bert]

One wonders why this man is alive. He failed miserably to perform his primary function, defend the nation. One wonders hoaw he escaped the wrath of Saddam Hussein. He is finally comoing in out of the cold.

Is there a message here? What did he know and when did he know it?

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

Separated at birth?!

[PhilDragoo]

He is an innocent man and we want you to treat him honestly.

[RobFromGa]

excellent...

[windchime]

Great info! Thanks.

[kinghorse]

General Sultan Hashim Ahmed may end up the first president of the democratic republic of Iraq. The US is treating this guy very well.

He was Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf's favorite surrendering officer at the meeting in the desert to lay down the terms of their (first) surrender.

[Straight Vermonter]

Ping for update

[Delta 21]

King of Clubs

Its been way too long! How about an update??

[Future Useless Eater]

It seems to be still to premature on the K of C.
We only have his wife, daughter, and associate in custody.

At approximately 11:00 a.m., Nov. 25, soldiers raided a building in Samarra and detained three people including Ibrahimal-Duri’s wife. Ibrahimal-Duri’s daughter and his physician’s son were also detained. There is no indication that Ibrahimal-Duri was in the vicinity.

[Delta 21]

This guy has been one of Saddam's worst henchmen. It sounds like he is still misplacing his loyalty, being suspected of organising some of the strikes against our troops.

GO TEAM ! ! !

[MEG33]

Hope we get an addition