Iraq War News

July 22, 2003, 5:02 PM EDT


The 55 most wanted Iraqis and their status, according to U.S. Central Command. Of the total, 34 are reported in U.S. custody:

* No. 1: Saddam Hussein, president.

* No. 2: Qusai Hussein, Saddam's son. Killed July 22.

* No. 3: Odai Hussein, Saddam's son. Killed July 22.

* No. 4: Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, presidential secretary, Saddam's cousin. Taken into custody June 17.

* No. 5: Ali Hassan al-Majid, presidential adviser, Revolutionary Command Council member. Also known as "Chemical Ali." Possibly killed.

* No. 6: Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, RCC vice chairman, longtime Saddam confidant.

* No. 7: Hani Abd al-Latif Tilfah al-Tikriti, director, Special Security Organization.

* No. 8: Aziz Saleh al-Numan, Baath Party Baghdad region command chairman. Taken into custody May 22.

* No. 9: Muhammad Hamza al-Zubaydi, retired RCC member, a leader of 1991 suppression of Shiite rebellion. Taken into custody April 20.

* No. 10: Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti, secretary of the Republican Guard, Saddam's son-in-law. Surrendered May 17.

* No. 11: Barzan Abd al-Ghafur Sulayman Majid al-Tikriti, Special Republican Guard commander, Saddam's cousin.

* No. 12: Muzahim Sa'b Hassan al-Tikriti, who headed Iraq's air defenses under Saddam. Taken into custody April 23.

* No. 13 Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al Sattar Muhammad, armed forces chief of staff. Taken into custody May 15.

* No. 14: Sayf al-Din Fulayyih Hasan Taha al-Rawi, Republican Guard chief of staff.

* No. 15: Rafi Abd al-Latif Tilfah al-Tikriti, director of general security.

* No. 16: Tahir Jalil Haboush, chief of Iraqi intelligence service.

* No. 17: Hamid Raja Shalah al-Tikriti, air force commander. Central Command he's in coalition custody. No date was given for his apprehension.

* No. 18: Latif Nusayyif al-Jasim al-Dulaymi, Baath Party military bureau deputy chairman. Taken into custody June 9.

* No. 19: Abdel Tawab Mullah Huweish, deputy prime minister. Taken into custody May 2.

* No. 20: Taha Yassin Ramadan, vice president, RCC member.

* No. 21: Rukan Razuki Abd al-Ghafar Sulayman al-Majid al-Tikriti, head of tribal affairs office.

* No. 22: Jamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti, deputy head of tribal affairs, Saddam's son-in-law. Taken into custody April 20.

* No. 23: Mizban Khadr Hadi, RCC member. Taken into custody July 8.

* No. 24: Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf, vice president, RCC member, only Kurd in Saddam's hierarchy. Taken into custody May 2.

* No. 25: Tariq Aziz, deputy prime minister. Taken into custody April 25.

* No. 26: Walid Hamid Tawfiq, governor of Basra. Surrendered April 29.

* No. 27: Gen. Sultan Hashim Ahmad, defense minister.

* No. 28: Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-Azzawi, deputy prime minister, finance minister. Taken into custody April 18.

* No. 29: Mahmoud Diab al-Ahmed, interior minister. Taken into custody July 8.

* No. 30: Ayad Futayyih Khalifa, Quds forces chief of staff. Taken into custody June 4.

* No. 31: Gen. Zuhayr Talib Abd al-Sattar al-Naqib, director of military intelligence. Taken into custody April 23.

* No. 32: Lt. Gen. Amir Hamudi Hasan al-Saadi, presidential scientific adviser. Surrendered April 12.

* No. 33: Amir Rashid Muhammad al-Ubaydi, presidential adviser, oil minister. Taken into custody April 28.

* No. 34: Gen. Hussam Mohammed Amin, head of monitoring directorate, chief liaison with U.N. weapons inspectors. Taken into custody April 27.

* No. 35: Muhammad Mahdi al-Salih, trade minister. Taken into custody April 23.

* No. 36: Sabawi Ibrahim Hasan, presidential adviser, Saddam's half brother.

* No. 37: Watban Ibrahim Hasan, presidential adviser, Saddam's half brother. Taken into custody April 13.

* No. 38: Barzan Ibrahim Hasan, presidential adviser, Saddam's half brother. Taken into custody April 16.

* No. 39: Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, reputedly scientist in biological weapons program, first woman elected to Baath Party's national command council. Taken into custody May 9.

* No. 40: Abdel Baqi Abdel Karim Abdallah al-Sadun, Baath Party regional command chairman.

* No. 41: Mohammed Zimam Abdul Razaq, Baath Party regional command chairman.

* No. 42: Samir Abd al-Aziz al-Najim, Baath Party regional command chairman. Taken into custody April 17.

* No. 43: Humam Abdul-Khaliq Abdul-Ghafoor, minister of higher education and scientific research. Taken into custody April 19.

* No. 44: Yahya Abdellah al-Aboudi, Baath Party regional command chairman.

* No. 45: Nayef Shedakh, Baath Party regional chairman, Najaf governorate, reported by Iraqi television to have been killed in battle for Najaf.

* No. 46: Sayf al-Din al-Mashadani, Baath Party regional command chairman. Taken into custody May 24.

* No. 47: Fadil Mahmud Gharib, Baath Party regional command chairman. Taken into custody May 15.

* No. 48: Muhsin Khadr al-Khafaji, Baath Party regional command chairman.

* No. 49: Rashid Taan Kazim, Baath Party regional chairman.

* No. 50: Ugla Abid Saqr, Baath Party regional chairman. Taken into custody May 20.

* No. 51: Ghazi Hammud, Baath Party regional command chairman. Taken into custody May 7.

* No. 52: Adilabdillah Mahdi al-Duri al-Tikriti, Baath Party regional command chairman. Taken into custody May 15.

* No. 53: Brig. Gen. Husayn al-Awadi, Baath Party Regional command chairman, senior officer in Iraqi military's chemical weapons corps. Taken into custody June 9.

* No. 54: Khamis Sirhan al-Muhammad, Baath Party Regional command chairman, militia commander.

* No. 55: Sad Abd al-Majid al-Faysal, Baath Party Regional command chairman. Taken into custody May 24.
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Saddam's Sons Update - Owner Says Sons were in House: "Fox quotes Al Jazeera as quoting the owner of the house that the son's were in the house, as was a grandson.
Fox sources are also reporting intelligence that Saddam's wife and two daughters have been in the Mosul recently.
White house sources are giving 90-95% odds that it was the sons that were killed."

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Saddam's Sons Update - "Very Likely": "From Fox News TV: They have high level military sources saying it is "very likely" that Saddam's sons, Uday and Kusay were killed in the raid. Senior pentagon officials say that some sort of announcement will be made later today.
Four bodies have been transported from the scene. The bodies were "shot up pretty bad" and there will be DNA testing for final confirmation. Two are believed to be Qusay and Uday (they bear a "strong resemblance"), one a bodyguard, and one a teenager who may be one of Saddam's grandsons.
The operation was performed by Task Force 20 and the CIA, acting on specific intelligence that Uday and Qusay were in the house which belongs to a cousin of Saddam.
FOX is running live shots from the scene in Mosul.
Many truckloads of 101st Airborne troops are now arriving on the scene - purpose unknown.
No online source yet - this just breaking."

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SADDAM'S SONS UPDATE: "REUTERS has quite a bit more information than previously reported.

WASHINGTON/MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's two sons may have been found by U.S. forces during a shootout on Tuesday in Iraq's northern city of Mosul in which four high-ranking Saddam allies were killed, U.S. officials said.
"There is a pretty decent chance (Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay were there during the shootout)," one official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters in Washington.
"There was a shootout in Mosul, and there is a number of dead people and a couple of them could be Uday and Qusay," the official said, but added it had not been definitively confirmed.
U.S. forces said earlier they had stormed a house in Mosul and killed four high-ranking allies of Saddam, who was ousted as Iraqi president by U.S.-led forces on April 9.
Some 200 soldiers blasted the villa with machineguns and rockets during a four-hour battle before storming the building and bringing out four bodies, U.S. officers in Iraq said.
The officers declined to identify them or comment on local rumors Saddam's sons might have been present.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (July 22) - Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai were killed in a six-hour firefight Tuesday when U.S. forces surrounded and then stormed a palatial villa in this northern Iraqi town, a senior American general said.

''We are certain that Odai and Qusai were killed today,'' said Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez at a news conference in Baghdad.

''They died in a fierce gunbattle,'' Sanchez added.

He told reporters that soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were working on a tip from an Iraqi informant that the sons were present in the house.

When troops approached the building, gunmen inside opened fire with small arms. The ''suspects barricaded themselves in the house'' and ''resisted fiercely,'' he said.

AP-NY-07-22-03 1544EDT

Onlookers gather outside a building belonging to a cousin of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein which was raided by U.S. troops in Mosul, IraqTuesday July 22, 2003, in this image made from television. U.S. officials said they were investigating whether two of Saddam's sons Uday and Qusai were amongst four iraqis killed in the raid. (AP Photo/APTN)Yahoo! News - World Photos - AP

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DRUDGE REPORT 2003®










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DoD Identifies Army Casualties

The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were
supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Sgt. 1st Class Christopher R. Willoughby, 29, Phenix City, Ala., died on July 20 in
Baghdad, Iraq. Willoughby was riding in a vehicle that rolled over. Willoughby was
assigned to Headquarters, Headquarters Company, 221st Military Intelligence
Battalion, Fort Gillen, Ga.

Cpl. Mark A. Bibby, 25, Watha, N.C., was died on July 21 in Baghdad, Iraq. Bibby was
in a convoy to a water treatment facility when an improvised explosive device
exploded. Bibby was assigned to Headquarters, Headquarters Detachment, 422 Civil
Affairs Battalion, Greensboro, N.C.

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U.S. Kills High-Value Iraqis in Siege

MOSUL, Iraq - U.S. troops stormed a house in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday and said they killed four high-ranking allies of Saddam Hussein.

Some 200 soldiers blasted the villa with machineguns and rockets during a four-hour battle before storming in to find four bodies, U.S. officers said.
Soldiers stormed a house in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, killing one Iraqi . A U.S. soldier was killed and another wounded Tuesday when their convoy was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire northwest of Baghdad.

They declined to identify them or comment on local rumors Saddam's sons might have been present.

The U.S. forces have been conducting an intensive hunt for the fugitive former dictator himself, spurred on by guerrilla attacks they blame on his die-hard supporters. Another American soldier was killed on Tuesday, the sixth in just five days.

He died as a trio of U.S. appointees prepared to address the Security Council in New York, the first Baghdad delegates to return to the United Nations since Saddam fell in April.

‘Individuals of very high interest to the coalition forces were hiding out in the building,’ Lieutenant-Colonel William Bishop of the 101st Airborne Division told Reuters in Mosul.

‘This morning we went to the building and surrounded it.’

Major Trey Cate, spokesman for the division, said four ‘high-value targets’ were found dead after the battle. A fifth Iraqi also died in the fighting.

Locals said there had been rumors that the troops were hunting Saddam's sons. The younger, Qusay, was one of his father's most trusted lieutenants. Uday was famed and feared throughout Iraq for his cruelty and playboy lifestyle.

Witnesses said U.S. soldiers were fired at by people inside the house as they approached. The house -- a large villa -- sustained considerable damage. Its roof was staved in, apparently by a missile.
SOLDIER KILLED
U.S. forces have announced the capture of 34 of the 55 Iraqis on a most-wanted list of members of Saddam's regime, but Saddam and his sons have not been found.

U.S. officials say Saddam is probably still alive and hiding somewhere in Iraq. Audio tapes said to have been made by the deposed leader have been given to Arab television networks, exhorting Iraqis to fight occupying U.S. and British troops.

The death of the 39th U.S. soldier to be killed by hostile fire since President Bush declared the war over on May 1 highlighted the continued pressure his forces are under. Bush said on Monday he would welcome military help from abroad.

But allies like France, Germany and Russia, which hotly opposed the U.S. and British invasion, want a clearer U.N. mandate before getting involved in a messy situation which they had warned Washington could be the result of going to war.

Iraq is on the agenda for Tuesday's Security Council meeting where three delegates from Iraq's new Governing Council will ask the United Nations to recognize the U.S.-appointees as representing the Iraqi people, a political source in Baghdad said.



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