Posted on 05/13/2003 5:54:17 PM PDT by yonif
US forces have taken into custody a Ba'ath Party member who was ranked 28 on America's list of the 55 most wanted Iraqis.
Regional command member Fadil Mahmud Gharib was captured in the last 24 hours, a US defence official said on Tuesday.
US Central Command identified Gharib as a member of toppled President Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party regional command and chairman for the Babil district.
He also was known as Gharib Muhammad Fazel al-Mashaikh.
It brings to 21 the number of people on the list who are in US custody, with another three dead.
Defence officials did not provide details about how or where they apprehended Gharib, designated as the three of hearts in a deck of cards given by the US military to troops to aid their search for Iraqi fugitives.
Lots of jokers.
So do I, not especially for GW's vindication (which I do wish for him), more because I don't want to see evil people doing evil things.....and they will.
Baath Party Commander, Culture Minister in U.S. Custody
Another Baath Party (search) regional commander was taken into custody in Iraq Tuesday as the U.S. military's deck of cards of Iraq's 55 most wanted gets thinner.
Iraq's former culture minister also was in U.S. hands.
Fox News has learned that an Iraqi government operative, identified as Fadil Mahmud Gharib (search), is now under the control of U.S. forces. He was listed as No. 47 on the U.S. Central Command's (search) list of top Iraqi regime members being sought. Gharib is the "three of hearts" in the deck.
Gharib's picture is not shown on the card, like it is for most other top regime members wanted by the coalition.
But he was part of the Baath Party's regional command, in charge of the "Babil District."
Although he's not on the list of 55, the newly confirmed capture of former Culture Minister Hamed Youssef Hamadi (search) is significant, senior military officials say, because they hope he can shed some light on what happened to some of the country's most important missing artifacts.
After U.S. troops rolled into Baghdad and the regime was toppled, rampant looting took place and many precious artifacts from the country's museums were stolen.
Hamadi, one military official told Fox News, was No. 116 on the list of the top 200 most sought-after Iraqi officials.
Senior defense officials told Fox News that U.S. forces on average capture or accept the surrender of one to two leaders a day. The fugitives are then taken into custody in Iraq.
Other negotiations are taking place to round up about 200 other members of Saddam Hussein's regime.
Fox News' Ian McCaleb, Bret Baier and Chris Wright contributed to this report.
Iraq's See the DOD website for photos. Note their joker card has an Iraqi SURNAME explanation (Revised: 5/13pm) |
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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 | Captured 5/12/03 |
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Sayf al-Din Fulayyih Hassan Taha al-Rawi | RGFC Chief | At large** [or maybe dead? see note2] |
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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) | Captured 5/02/03 |
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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 | Captured 5/02/03 |
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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 | In Custody 5/05/03 |
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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. | Captured 5/13/03 |
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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. | In Custody 5/07/03 |
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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 | In Custody 5/12/03 |
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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 Note2: Also, Al-Rawi (J-of-spades) 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. |
I only know of 1 most likely dead... WHO KNOWS THE THREE NAMES?
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