Arabic television station Al Jazeera said today a senior Baath Party member on the US list of most wanted Iraqis had been captured.
The report from Iraq identified him as Muhammad Zimam Abd al-Razzaq al-Sadun, who was Baath Party chairman and commander of the Baath Party militia in Baghdad and was number 41 on a list of 55 most wanted Iraqis. It gave no further details.
His capture, if confirmed, would bring to 44 the number caught by US forces since the United States authorities issued their "most wanted" deck of cards portraying the faces of those it wished to capture.
Saddam's former lieutenant, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, is the highest-ranking official on the list who remains at large, coming in at Number 6.
