US forces capture two wanted Iraqi officials

Two of the 55 Iraqi officials wantedby the United States have been apprehended,while the first food aid arrived in the shattered…

Two of the 55 Iraqi officials wantedby the United States have been apprehended,while the first food aid arrived in the shattered Iraqi capitalafter a perilous four-day journey.

One month after the launch of the war, US forces announced theywill re-open Baghdad airport to humanitarian flights in the next fewdays.

Iraq's former scientific research and higher education ministerHuman abd al-Khaliq al-Ghafar was captured on Saturday and was in UScustody, Lieutenant Herb Josey said at Central Command's warheadquarters in Qatar.

Centcom also said that the Iraqi National Congress reportedholding another wanted official, Jamal Mustafa Abdullah, deputy headof the Tribal Affairs Office, who was being turned over to coalitionforces in Baghdad.

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Both men appeared in the "most wanted" deck of cards issued bythe military.

The two captures would bring to seven the number of officials onthe list to be captured since the start of the war.