US-led forces held two more Iraqis on Washington's most wanted list after one former leader surrendered and another was captured, the US Central Command said this morning.
US-led forces captured Mahmud Dhiyab Al-Ahmad, Saddam Hussein's former interior minister and number 29 on the Top 55 list yesterday, the statement said.
In a separate incident, Mizban Khadr Al Hadi, a high-ranking member of the Ba'ath Party and Revolutionary Command Council and number 23 on the list of wanted government officials, turned himself in Baghdad.
There was no further information available on the arrests, which bring to 34 the number of senior officials on the list now detained, according to US Central Command figures.