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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Former Prime Minister Muhammad Hamza al-Zubaydi, one of the top Saddam Hussein-era leaders captured in Iraq, has died at a U.S. military hospital in Baghdad, an American military spokesman said Monday. He was 67. Al-Zubaydi, a Shiite Muslim, died of heart failure Friday and the U.S. military is awaiting autopsy results to determine the cause of death, according to Lt. Col. Barry Johnson. Al-Zubaydi, a retired Revolutionary Command Council member who led Saddam's forces in central Iraq during the initial stages of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, was one of the 55 most wanted members of Saddam's toppled...

With the Capture of the "Queen of Hearts", BARZAN ABD AL-GHAFUR SULAYMAN MAJID AL-TIKRIT, Number 11 on the Iraq most wanted list, all of the "Queens" of Iraq have been captured by US Forces in Iraq. Queen of Spades (#9): Muhammad Hamza al-Zubaydi, Former Secretary Of Ba'ath Party Northern Bureau, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Former Member Of The Ba'ath Regional Command: Captured April 20, 2003 Queen of Diamonds (#12): Muzahim Sab Hasan al-Tikriti LTG, Commander, Iraqi Air Defense Forces / Deputy Director Organization Of Military Industrialization (OMI): Captured April 23, 2003 Queen of Clubs (#10): Kamal Mustafa abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti...

<p>KUWAIT CITY — Nearly two weeks after the fall of Baghdad, former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is as elusive as ever. But U.S. officials say they are operating under the assumption that he and many other top leaders of his regime are still alive.</p>

We nabbed yet another one.

DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Muhammad Hazmaq al-Zubaydi, no. 18 on the U.S. most-wanted list, arrested in Iraq, U.S. Central Command says