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, Iraq, March 3, 1991 with US interpreter Rick Francona ]] Sultan Hashim Ahmad Al-Jabburi Al-Tay was Minister Of Defense under Saddam Hussein 's regime. A close relative of Saddam Hussein, he was appointed to the position in 1995. Ahmad's specialty was military intelligence; he graduated from Baghdad's National Security Institute in 1975. He served Saddam during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War and later in the First Gulf War, signing the cease-fire that ended it. He survived several purges and became the highest-ranking general in the Iraqi army. In 1988, as commander of the Iraq Army's First Corps, he played a direct role in the genocidal Anfal campaign against rural Kurds. As the invasion of Iraq loomed, it was reported in '' The Guardian '' on February 2003 that he had been placed under house arrest by Saddam Hussein, in a move that was apparently designed to prevent a coup. Nevertheless he continued to appear on Iraqi state TV, to preserve a sense of normality. In the 1991 Gulf War , Saddam chose Sultan Hashim Ahmad to head the Iraq i delegation at cease-fire talks near the border with Kuwait . However, he was regarded largely as a figurehead in the Iraqi armed forces with real control resting with Saddam. He was number 27 on the United States ' List Of Most Wanted Former Iraqi Officials . On September 19 , 2003 , after nearly a week of negotiations, he gave himself up in Mosul to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Dawood Bagistani , who arranged the surrender to Maj. Gen. David Petraeus , said Ahmad was handed over "with great respect" and was with his family at the time. Bagistani said the US Military had promised to remove Ahmad's name from the list of 55 most-wanted, meaning he would not face indefinite confinement and possible prosecution. "We trust the promise," Bagistani said. Special treatment for Ahmad could be an effort to defuse the Guerrilla -style attacks that are taking a toll on American soldiers. Many of the attackers are thought to be former soldiers in Saddam's army. Seeing their former military leader well-treated by the Americans might encourage them to lay down their arms. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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