Posted on 05/02/2003 1:45:03 AM PDT by OutSpot
TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) - U.S. soldiers raided a dozen buildings in Saddam Hussein's hometown Friday, killing one Iraqi and detaining about 20. U.S. officials also announced the capture in Baghdad of one of Saddam's most trusted aides.
The aide, Mizban Khadr Hadi, was a member of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council and had been an adviser to Saddam since the early 1980s. Captured Thursday, Hadi was ranked No. 41 on the U.S. most-wanted list of 55 regime leaders.
Even with President Bush declaring an end to "major combat operations," the raid in Tikrit was the latest of many signs that daunting challenges remain for American forces in Iraq.
Almost daily, U.S. troops exchange gunfire with Iraqis, sometimes as a result of anti-American protests. Lawlessness is rampant, in a land abounding with well-armed citizens and divided loyalties.
Tikrit, the stronghold of Saddam's al-Tikriti clan, has been a center of pro-regime sentiment even as the former government collapsed. U.S. officers say members of Saddam's Baath Party are trying to reorganize to stage attacks on American troops, and one of the men detained Friday was described as a party official.
"Some of these guys are continuing to terrorize people out there, and that's going to take a while to work through," said Lt. Col. Phil Battaglia, commander of the infantry regiment that conducted the raid.
During the raid, troops found several weapons and about $3,000 hidden in various houses, and one Iraqi was killed when he tried to wrest a rifle from an American soldier, U.S. officers said.
The raid, the second in Tikrit in as many days, began shortly after midnight when six Bradley Fighting Vehicles sealed off a residential district. Soldiers broke down gates and doors, forced their way inside and emerged with about 20 men, blindfolded and hands tied behind their backs.
The U.S. military provided few details about the capture of Hadi, who had been promoted by Saddam in March to command military defense in the area that included the Shiite Muslim holy cities of Karbala and Najaf. He has been a minister without portfolio since 1982 and was decorated by Saddam for his services during the 1991 Gulf War and a monthlong Shiite rebellion that followed Iraq's defeat.
No new violence was reported Friday in Fallujah, where seven U.S. soldiers were wounded Thursday in a grenade attack.
That attack was in apparent retaliation for U.S. gunfire earlier in the week that killed 18 people, according to local hospital officials. U.S. officers said their soldiers were defending themselves after being shot at, while residents said the victims were unarmed protesters.
Even a leader of the temporary city administration spoke harshly of the U.S. troops in Fallujah, a Baath Party stronghold 30 miles west of Baghdad.
"After the massacre, we don't believe the Americans came to free us, but to occupy and take our wealth and kill us," said Mohammed Farhan, who is in charge of city security.
One of the U.S. soldiers deployed in Fallujah died Thursday, but not in hostilities. Army officials said the solider from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment - whose name was not released - drowned when a tank plunged into a canal.
In another incident Thursday, an Apache helicopter destroyed a truck after a U.S. drone aircraft spotted four men loading ammunition onto the vehicle on the east side of the Tigris River. The four Iraqis were killed, according to Col. Don Campbell of the 4th Infantry Division's 1st Brigade.
After the attack, 13 Iraqis came to the area and were seen loading ammunition onto other vehicles. Apaches fired on a building where the men took refuge, triggering secondary explosions that suggested ammunition was stored inside, Campbell said.
In Baghdad, elation turned to chaos when a large propane tank exploded while people fired guns in the air to celebrate the return of electricity to their neighborhood. U.S. soldiers who arrived in tanks were confronted by an angry crowd complaining that the troops should have done more to help those injured by the explosion.
President Bush, in his speech Thursday aboard an aircraft carrier returning from the war, said much still needed to be done in Iraq, including restoring order, establishing a democratic government, tracking down Saddam and his top aides, and finding weapons of mass destruction.
Thus far, the U.S. government has rejected proposals to let United Nations weapons inspectors assist the U.S. teams that are searching Iraq for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
However, other U.N. staff have returned to Baghdad for the first time since the war to assess emergency humanitarian needs. A 21-member team that arrived Thursday included representatives of the World Health Organization, the World Food Program, the U.N. Children's Fund and the U.N. Development Program.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan ordered all U.N. international staff to leave Iraq on March 17, just before U.S.-led forces invaded the country.
Mohammed al-Douri, who as Iraq's U.N. ambassador vigorously defended Saddam's regime before the war, said Thursday that Iraq should now have a democratic government.
"The situation in the region has changed. Democracy is the way to go," al-Douri said in an interview with Dubai-based al-Arabiya television.
Before any new government can win popular support, he said, U.S. forces would have to leave Iraq - "otherwise people will not see this as legitimate and will contest it."
Good Work!!
Iraq's See the DOD website for photos. Note their joker card has an Iraqi SURNAME explanation (Revised: 5/02am) |
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Name | Position | Status | |
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Saddam Hussein | President of Iraq/CINC of Military | Possibly Dead |
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Qusay Hussein | SSO, SRG & RGFC Commander | Possibly Dead |
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Uday Hussein | Saddam Fedayeen Commander [the older "crazy rapist" son] |
Possibly Dead |
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Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti | Presidential Secretary (WMD Release Authority) | At large** |
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Ali Hasan al-Majid [aka: "Chemical Ali"] |
Pres. Advisor, Fmr South Reg Cmdr | Believed DEAD |
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Izzat IBRAHIM al-Duri | Vice Chair of the RCC, North Reg Cmdr | At large** |
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Hani Abd Latif Tilfa al-Tikriti | SSO Director | At large** |
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Aziz Salih al-Numan | BP Regional Cmdr/Cmdr BP Militia Reg Cmd | At large** |
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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 |
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Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti | RG Secretary | At large** |
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Barzan Abd al-Ghafur Sulayman Majid al-Tikriti | SRG Commander | At large** |
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Muzahim Sa'b Hasan al-Tikriti | Air Defense Force Commander | Captured 4/23/03 |
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Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al-Sattar Muhammad al-Tikriti | Armed Forces Chief of Staff | At large |
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Sayf al-Din Fulayyih Hassan Taha al-Rawi | RGFC Chief | At large** |
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Rafi Abd Latif al Tilfah | DGS Director | At large |
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Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti | IIS Director | At large** |
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Hamid Raja Shalah al-Tikriti | Air Force Commander | At large |
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Latif Nussayif Jasim al Dulaymi | Dep Chmn Baath Party | At large |
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Abd al Tawab Mullah Huwaysh | OMI Director (WMD Production) | At large |
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Taha Yasin RAMADAN al-Jizrawi | Vice President | At large |
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Rukan Razuki abd al-Ghafar al-Majid Sulayman al-Tikriti | Chief of Tribal Affairs | At large |
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Jamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti | Deputy Chief of Tribal Affairs [Saddam's son-in-law] |
In Custody 4/20/03 |
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Mizban Khadr Hadi | RCC Member, Reg CDR Central Euphrates Region | Captured 5/02/03 |
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Taha Muhyi al-Din MARUF | Vice President and RCC Member | At large |
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Tariq Mikhail AZIZ | Deputy Prime Minister | In Custody 4/24/03 |
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Walid Hamid Tawfiq al-Tikriti | Governor of Basrah Governate | In Custody 4/29/03 |
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Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-Azzawi | Dep Prime Minister, Economics & Finance Min. | Captured 4/19/03 |
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Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai | Minister of Defense | At large |
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Mahmud Dhiyab al-Ahmad | Minister of the Interior | At large |
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Ayad Futayyih Khalifa al-Rawi | Al Quds Force Chief of Staff | At large |
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Zuhayr Talib Abd al-Sattar al-Naqib | DMI Director | Captured 4/23/03 |
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Amir Hamudi Hasan al-Sadi | Presidential Scientific Adviser/NMD Dir Gen [chemical and biological programs] | In Custody 4/12/03 |
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Amir Rashid Muhammad al-Ubaydi | Former Oil Minister [aka "Missle Man" married to "Dr. Germ"] | In Custody 4/28/03 |
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Husam Muhammad AMIN al-Yasin | National Monitoring Director | Captured 4/27/03 |
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Muhammad Mahdi al-Salih | Minister of Trade | Captured 4/23/03 |
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Sabawi Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti | Baath Party, Saddam Maternal Half Brother | At large ** |
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Watban Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti | Baath Party, Saddam Half Brother | Captured 4/13/03 |
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Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti | Baath Party, Saddam Half Brother | Captured 4/16/03 |
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Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash | Party Youth & Trade Bureau Chairman | At large |
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Abd al-Baqi abd al-Karim Abdallah al-Sadun | BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Baghdad | At large |
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Muhammad Zimam Abd al-Razzaq al-Sadun | BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Ta'mim & Ninawa Gov | At large |
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Samir abd al-Aziz al-Najim | BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Diyal Gov. | Captured 4/17/03 |
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Humam Abd al-Khaliq Abd al-Ghafur | Min of Higher Education & Scientific Research | Captured 4/20/03 |
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Yahya Abdallah al-Ubaydi | BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Basrah Gov. | At large |
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Sa'd Abd al-Majid al-Faysal | BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Salah ad Din Gov. | At large |
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Sayf al-Din al-Mashhadani | BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Muthanna Gov. | At large |
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Fadil Mahmud Gharib (aka: Gharib Muhammad Fazel) al-Mashaikh | BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Babil/Karbala Gov. | At large |
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Muhsin Khadr al-Khafaji | BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Qadasiyah Gov. | At large |
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Rashid Taan Kazim | BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Anbar Governate | At large |
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Ugla Abid Saqr al-Kubaysi | BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Maysan Governate | At large |
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Ghazi Hammud al-Ubaydi | BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Wasit Gov. | At large |
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Adil Abdallah Mahdi | BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Dhi Qar Governate | At large |
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Nayif Shindakh Thamir | BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Salah ad Din Governate | At large |
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Husayn Al Awawi | BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Ninawa Governate | At large |
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Khamis Sirhan al Muhammad | BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Karbala Governate | At large |
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Farouk Hijazi | #3 in Mukhabarat Iraqi intelligence ["biggest fish so far" -CIA] | Captured 4/25/03 |
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["unnamed associate of"] Abu Musab Zarqawi |
a leading Al Qaeda operative | Captured 4/29/03 |
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Abu Abbas | Convicted Terrorist/Murderer - Leader Palestine Liberation Front | Captured 4/15/03 |
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Ahmed Walid Raguib al-Baz | Terrorist - 1st Lieutenant Palestine Liberation Front | Killed 3/20/03 |
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Khala Khadr Al-Salahat | Member of the Abul Nidal terrorist organization | In Custody 4/18/03 |
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Abdul Rahman Yasin | Indicted fugitive from 1993 WTC bombing, $25 Million reward | At large |
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Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani | former Iraq Consul, met with Mohammed Atta in Prague shortly before 9/11 | At large |
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Ali Hussein Habib | Iraqi airforce general | Killed by the regime ~3/20/03 |
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Khaled Abdallah | a senior official of Saddam's Mukhabarat secret police | In Custody 4/20/03 |
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Major Khalid Hmood | Head of Iraqi intelligence during the war and one of Saddam's top bodyguards, | In Custody 4/20/03 |
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Salim Sa'id Khalaf al-Jumayli | former Chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service American Desk | Captured 4/23/03 |
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"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 |
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Jaffar al-Jaffer | physicist & father of Iraq's nuclear WMD program | In Custody 4/13/03 |
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Imad Husayn Abdallah al-Ani | former VX nerve agent developer | In Custody 4/18/03 |
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Rihab Taha [aka "Dr. Germ"] | architect of Iraq's bio WMD program | At Large |
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Mohammed Saeed Kazim al-Sahaf [aka: "Comical Ali"] [aka: "Baghdad Bob"] |
Minister of Information [wanted for DNC spokesperson] |
On Administrative Leave [reportedly FOUND?] |
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** These nine fugitives were reportedly hiding in Syria 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. |
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