Latest developments in the Iraq situation

Thursday, July 24, 2003

  • U.S. forces captured a senior Republican Guard official, a day after killing Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai in a four-hour gunbattle. The head of the Special Republican Guard, Barzan Abd al-Ghafur Sulayman Majid al-Tikriti, was seized Wednesday at an undisclosed location in Iraq. He was 11th on the U.S. list of 55 most-wanted figures from the deposed regime.

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