Five of spades.
Possible straight.
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Official: Saddam's Half Brother Captured
By JOHN J. LUMPKIN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- U.S.-led forces have captured Saddam Hussein's half brother in northern Iraq, a U.S. official said Sunday.
Watban Ibrahim Hasan, an adviser to the Iraqi president, was planning to cross the border to Syria, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. He was apprehended in the Mosul area in recent days, the official said.
Saddam viewed him as a threat and kept a close watch on him, the official said. Watban was dismissed as Iraq's interior minister in 1995. Saddam's elder son, Odai, is reported to have shot him about that time, but Watban remained a presidential adviser.
Watban was the five of spades in the most-wanted list, in the form of a deck of cards, issued by the U.S. military. It was distributed to thousands U.S. troops in the field to help find senior members of the Saddam's government.
Mosul came under control of Kurdish fighters and U.S. troops on Friday after Iraqi forces gave up without a fight.
Saddam has other half brothers, including Barzan al-Tikriti, a former Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations in Switzerland, and Sab'awi Ibrahim al-Hassan al-Tikriti. Their whereabouts was not known.
On Friday, coalition warplanes hit a building owned by Barzan near Ramadi in central Iraqi, the U.S. Central Command in Qatar reported. |
