Sabawi Ibrahim Hasan, a half brother of Saddam Hussein who was the former president's intelligence chief before becoming a presidential adviser, has been captured, officials in the Iraqi prime minister's office said Sunday.
According to The AP, Hasan is No. 36 on the list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis released by U.S. authorities after troops invaded Iraq in March 2003.
According to the U.S. Central Command, Hasan is among the 29 most-wanted supporters of armed anti American groups in post-Saddam Iraq. Officials in interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's office confirmed Hasan's capture but gave no details on where it took place or when.
Under Saddam, Hasan served as head of intelligence and security before taking up his last post of presidential adviser in the former regime. He is also known as Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti, aka Thafir Alsemak.
The government statement said he had "killed and tortured Iraqi people." It also said he had "participated effectively in planning, supervising, and carrying out many terrorist acts in Iraq."
Meanwhile, south of Baghdad, Iraqi forces found four headless bodies dumped on a farm, and a fifth headless corpse in the capital, officials said. The four, who belonged to the Badr Organization, a wing of the main Shiite political group, the Supreme Council For the Islamic Revolution, or SCIRI, had been kidnapped earlier Saturday as they drove to the holy Shiite city of Najaf.
A bomb went off inside headquarters of police in the northern town of Hammam Alil, killing five people. And the U.S. command announced a U.S. Marine was killed Saturday during military operations in central Babil province.
In Baghdad, gunmen attacked police heading to work in a drive-by shooting in the western Amiriyah district, killing two of them, police said. Police also found the body of a dead Iraqi woman, dressed in traditional black, with a sign that said "spy" pinned to her chest.
