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Longtime Saddam Aide Captured in North By PAM SAMPSON .c The Associated Press CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar (AP) - Coalition forces captured a senior Baath Party official on the U.S. most-wanted list, marking the second major arrest of a close Saddam Hussein adviser in as many days, the Central Command reported Friday. Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said Samir Abd al-Aziz al-Najim was handed over to U.S. troops by Iraqi Kurds near the northern city of Mosul overnight. U.S. forces are conducting a nationwide search for Saddam and his leadership group. There still was no concrete information about the former Iraqi...

THE half-brother of Saddam Hussein captured by special forces on Thursday has disclosed valuable information about the former regime, American military sources said yesterday. Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti, who worked closely with Saddam for more than two decades, was said to have been instantly co-operative. His response has raised hopes that he will lead troops to the fugitive Iraqi leader or provide details of weapons systems. The reports came as a fourth member of the regime was seized. Samir al-Aziz al-Najim, regional chairman of the Baath party in east Baghdad, was handed to US troops by Iraqi Kurds near Mosul....

Now that another of the low-numbered cards is off the table, Vince Brooks's doomsday deck is now short one card. But this poker game is not over, and the most valuable cards are still missing. The capture of Aziz al-Najim, a ranking Baathist, only means that he wasn't bright enough to slip away to Syria when the limos pulled out of Baghdad. The Abu Dhabi film of Saddam--supposedly filmed on April 9, the day his statue was pulled down and Baghdad fell--is meant only to revive the concern of the average Iraqi that Saddam is still alive. So long as...

<p>04:27 PDT (AP) -- Another top aide to Saddam Hussein on the U.S. most-wanted list has been taken into custody, the U.S. Central Command said Friday. North of Baghdad, a U.S. Army armored unit attacked pro-Saddam paramilitary forces, taking 30 prisoners.</p>