Iraqi forces capture late Saddam Hussein’s senior aide

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Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi

Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi
Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi

Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, on Saturday said that the Iraqi security forces captured a leading figure in Saddam Hussein’s Baath party in an operation based on intelligence reports.

Al-Abadi said this in his address to a ceremony in Baghdad for the 146th anniversary of the Iraqi press. “The security forces managed to arrest the terrorist Abdul Karim al-Sadoun by the efforts of the Iraqi intelligence,” Abadi said.

Abadi did not give further details about how or where the arrest took place, saying he preferred an official statement to declare the details later as interrogation was still underway.

Al-Sadoun was arrested on Friday in south of the city of Kirkuk, some 250 km north of Baghdad, a police source said on condition of anonymity.

Al-Sadoun held several important positions in Saddam’s Baath party, including being a member of national leadership of Baath party.

He was also the head of the party’s branches in southern Iraq and in the country’s eastern province of Diyala.

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He was wanted for crimes against humanity and accused of supervising the killing of hundreds of people.

The killing allegedly took place during an uprising by Shiites in the south in 1991 at the end of the Gulf War, during which US forces ended Iraq’s
invasion of Kuwait.

Al-Sadoun is also accused of recruiting and financing foreign terrorists in eastern and central Iraq.

He is also believed to be responsible for attacks against Iraqi civilians and police in the Iraqi cities of Nasiriya and Basra in the south, and in Diyala as well.

The Iraqi government and the US military frequently blamed remnants of the former regime and foreign militants, for much of the insurgent violence that erupted in the country after the US-led invasion in 2003.

They also blame them for the insurgency that followed US pullout from Iraq 2011.

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