Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, on Saturday said the Iraqi security forces captured a leading figure in Saddam Hussein’s Baath party in an operation based on intelligence reports.
Al-Abadi said this in his address to a ceremony in Baghdad for the 146th anniversary of the Iraqi press.
“The security forces managed to arrest the terrorist Abdul Karim al-Sadoun by the efforts of the Iraqi intelligence,” Abadi said.
Abadi did not give further details about how or where the arrest took place, saying he preferred an official statement to declare the details later as interrogation was still underway.
Al-Sadoun was arrested on Friday in south of the city of Kirkuk, some 250 km north of Baghdad, a police source said on condition of anonymity.
Al-Sadoun held several important positions in Saddam’s Baath party, including being a member of national leadership of Baath party.
He was also the head of the party’s branches in southern Iraq and in the country’s eastern province of Diyala.
He was wanted for crimes against humanity and accused of supervising the killing of hundreds of people.
(NAN)
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