Thursday, August 21, 2003
Yahoo! News Full Coverage - World - U.S.: 'Chemical Ali,' Number Five Most-Wanted Iraqi, Captured
(AP) - Ali Hassan al-Majid, No. 5 on the list of most-wanted Iraqis, has been captured, the U.S. military said on Thursday. Meanwhile, searchers pulled three more bodies from the rubble of the bombed U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, raising the death toll to 23. Later, the United Nations announced it was withdrawing one-third of its staff from Iraq. Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein, once ran Iraq's armed forces. Opponents dubbed him "Chemical Ali" for his role in 1988 chemical weapons attacks that killed thousands of Kurds in northern Iraq.