7 of Diamonds Surrenders

Saddam's chemical chief surrenders
Apr 12 2003

The first of the 55 Iraqis featured on the US "playing cards" wanted list of Saddam's henchmen has given himself up to Allied forces, it has been reported.

Saddam Hussein's chief scientific adviser, Amir al-Saadi, who stands accused of covering up Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programme, was said to have surrendered to US forces in Baghdad.

Al-Saadi, a chemist and former head of Iraq's secret advanced weapons programme, was on a list of the top 55 "most wanted" regime figures drawn up this week.

The coalition issued the list in the form of a pack of cards - al-Saadi's face was the seven of diamonds.

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[Phaedrus]

Surrendered, but still says there's no WMD:

"He told ZDF that he did not know what had happened to Saddam and repeated his assertion, made often in news conferences before the US-led invasion, that Iraq was free of weapons of mass destruction."

Surrendered, but was at home the whole time. They didn't think to check the house?

"According to ZDF's correspondent in Baghdad, Ulrich Tilgner, Lt-Gen al-Saadi said he had spent the war at his home and had decided to turn himself in after seeing on the BBC that he was being sought."

I need to get a deck of those cards. This is going to be more fun than tracking the hunt for Khalik Mohammed, who was reported killed twice in 2002 and captured once in 2003.


Phaedrus