Iraqi police captured a former Baath Party chairman Saturday who was No. 41 on the U.S. military's most-wanted list.
Mohammed Zimam Abdul-Razaq was arrested at one of his homes in western Baghdad, Deputy Interior Minister Ahmed Kadhum Ibrahim told journalists.
Abdul-Razaq sat next to the Iraqi official wearing a traditional black robe. According to The AP, Ibrahim said he did not resist arrest.
Under Saddam Hussein, Abdul-Razaq was the Baath Party regional chairman in the northern provinces of Nineveh and Tamim, which include the city of Kirkuk.
Meanwhile, the U.S. administrator for Iraq said Sunday he believed fighters from outside Iraq took part in Saturday's attack on a police station in Fallujah.
"There were foreigners apparently involved. We're still looking into that to try to find out what the implications are," L. Paul Bremer said in a broadcast interview from Baghdad.
He said the attack by dozens of gunmen was "sophisticated" and appeared to be "well organized." Twenty-five people, most of them policemen, were killed.
Speaking on ABC's "This Week" program Bremer said, however, it was still too early to know who planned and carried out the assault. (Albawaba.com)
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