The fifth person on the list and the king of spades in the deck of cards _ Ali Hassan al-Majid, or "Chemical Ali" _ was reportedly killed in southern Iraq during the fighting. 10 Muzahim Sa'b Hassan al-Tikriti, the head of Iraq's air defenses. The top person to be detained so far is No. Marouf was the only Kurd in the Baath Party hierarchy and served as one of two vice presidents in 1975, a ceremonial role that was largely a gesture to the Kurdish minority.
He was a member of Saddam's Revolutionary Command Council. coalition's list and was designated the nine of hearts in the U.S. Hadi headed the defense of an area that included the Shiite Muslim holy cities of Karbala and Najaf.
In March, Saddam promoted him to head one of the country's four military regions in an attempt to decentralize authority before an expected U.S. He was decorated by Saddam for his role in the 1991 Gulf War and the monthlong Shiite rebellion that followed Iraq's defeat. Hadi was one of Saddam's closest advisers, especially on policy relating to Shiite Muslims, the most populous sect of Islam in Iraq but the less powerful one under Saddam's predominantly Sunni Muslim regime. He served as deputy prime minister in charge of arms procurement and his office served as Iraq's chief weapons acquisition agency. He was in charge of supervising and coordinating the deployment of Iraq's ballistic missiles in late 2002, and he was part of the leadership that was planning long-term guerrilla warfare against the United States, according to the Washington-based International Strategic Studies Association. 16 on the coalition's list and the 10 of hearts. It was not clear when Huweish and Marouf were detained, where they were being held or whether they surrendered or were seized. Army's V Corps announced.Ībdel Tawab Mullah Huweish, director of the Office of Military Industrialization, and Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf, a Kurd and top Baath Party official who served as one of two vice presidents, were also in custody, U.S. Mizban Khadr Hadi, the commander of one of four military regions Saddam established just before the war, was captured Thursday in Baghdad, the U.S. 2 days ago &0183 &32 Leaders attending the Air Force Sustainment Center Commander’s Summit April 25 were given an academic perspective of wartime information dynamics courtesy of Katerina Tsetsura, Ph.D., associate professor at the University of Oklahoma. With the new detentions, the United States is now holding 18 of the 55 people on its list of most-wanted Iraqi officials. military announced Friday that three more members of its most-wanted "deck of cards" were in custody, including one of Saddam's most trusted aides and a top weapons-development official. Tracking the scattered vestiges of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime, the U.S.
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