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August 19, 2003
Another Capture
The former Iraqi vice-president, Taha Yassin Ramadan, has been captured.
Taha Yassin Ramadan, Saddam Hussein's former vice president, has been captured by U.S. Kurdish allies in northern Iraq, U.S. and Kurdish officials said on Tuesday.
"He was detained in Mosul as a result of cooperation between the political parties and residents," Adel Murad of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) told Reuters in Baghdad.
Captured by the Kurds, how delicious....considering what he did to them.
Ramadan is alleged to have been involved in crimes against humanity for his role in suppressing Kurdish rebellion in the north in the 1980s and against the Shi'ite revolt in southern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War.
He's also the guy who called the Saudi foreign minister a "loser", "a minion and a lackey" for suggesting that Saddam step down. I smell a little projection here.
Ramadan, who is in his 60s and originally from the Mosul region, was one of the most hawkish members of Saddam's inner circle and one of the only surviving plotters of the 1968 coup that brought the Baath Party to power.
How did he survive in Saddam's "inner circle" for so long? Pot. Kettle. Black.
And now he's a loser too. Karma's funny that way.
Posted by Rita at August 19, 2003 06:22 AM