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The US forces announced in Baghdad Wednesday that it had captured No. 11 on the list of most-wanted officials of Saddam Hussein's regime.
Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez, the US commander in Iraq, told a press conference that they arrested No. 11 on Wednesday morning.
He didn't give further details, but No. 11 is Barzan Abd al-Ghafur Sulayman Majid al-Tikriti, commander of the Special Republican Guard and a cousin of Saddam.
(Xinhua News Agency July 24, 2003)
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