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April 19, 2003
Release Number: 03-04-155
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS BRIEFING REVEALS CAPTURE OF NUMBER 24
CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar - U.S. Central Command announced during the April 18 press briefing the capture of Samir Abd al-Aziz al-Najim, number 24 on the list of the top-55 wanted members of the Iraqi regime. He was handed over to coalition forces by Iraqi Kurds near Mosul in northern Iraq on 17 April.
He was a Ba'ath Party official, a regional command chairman for the Baghdad district, and is believed to have first-hand knowledge of the Ba'ath Party central structure.
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