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Top Saddam aide falls in Baghdad dragnet
(MENAFN- Arab News) BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces have arrested Abd Al-Baqi Al-Saadun one of the most senior officials from Saddam Hussein's regime Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi said on Saturday.
'The intelligence service was able to arrest the wanted man Abd Al-Baqi Al-Saadun' Abadi announced in a televised speech.
A senior intelligence officer said Saadun was arrested on Thursday 'without resistance' in the northern province of Kirkuk following an operation that lasted more than a year.
Saadun held various senior positions in Saddam's Baath party and the US military had previously said he was wanted for crimes against humanity committed during the suppression of a 1999 Shiite uprising.
He was the five of diamonds in the US military deck of cards picturing the most-wanted officials from Saddam's regime.
Izzat Ibrahim Al-Duri the most senior Baathist still at large was said to have been killed earlier this year but Iraq later admitted it lacked the necessary DNA results to confirm his identity.
Separately Al-Abadi said that Iraqi forces made an 'unauthorized' withdrawal from Ramadi last month leading to Daesh's takeover of the Anbar provincial capital.
'The withdrawal of the forces from Ramadi was unauthorized the orders were the opposite. The forces had to resist and if they had resisted we would not have lost Ramadi' Abadi said in televised remarks.
'The intelligence service was able to arrest the wanted man Abd Al-Baqi Al-Saadun' Abadi announced in a televised speech.
A senior intelligence officer said Saadun was arrested on Thursday 'without resistance' in the northern province of Kirkuk following an operation that lasted more than a year.
Saadun held various senior positions in Saddam's Baath party and the US military had previously said he was wanted for crimes against humanity committed during the suppression of a 1999 Shiite uprising.
He was the five of diamonds in the US military deck of cards picturing the most-wanted officials from Saddam's regime.
Izzat Ibrahim Al-Duri the most senior Baathist still at large was said to have been killed earlier this year but Iraq later admitted it lacked the necessary DNA results to confirm his identity.
Separately Al-Abadi said that Iraqi forces made an 'unauthorized' withdrawal from Ramadi last month leading to Daesh's takeover of the Anbar provincial capital.
'The withdrawal of the forces from Ramadi was unauthorized the orders were the opposite. The forces had to resist and if they had resisted we would not have lost Ramadi' Abadi said in televised remarks.
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