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lennart
18-06-03, 19:02
Saddam's closest aide captured

Saddam Hussein's presidential secretary - number four on the US most wanted list of Iraqi leaders - has been captured in Iraq, US officials say.
Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, one of the former Iraqi president's closest aides, controlled access to Saddam Hussein and was frequently at his side.

Mahmud al-Tikriti is said to have directed matters of state and handed down many of the regime's repressive orders.

The US says he was also authorised to deploy weapons of mass destruction.

US officials would not give details of how he was captured, but the detention is reported to have coincided with a series of raids in the area around Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's home town north of Baghdad.

Over the past few days, US troops have stepped up their search for members of the ousted regime and pockets of resistance with the launch of Operation Desert Scorpion.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3001616.stm

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