| BAGHDAD, Iraq - The former governor
of Iraq's southern Basra province, a member of Saddam Hussein's clan and
one of the Iraqis on the U.S.-led coalition's most-wanted list, surrendered
and is in custody, the exile Iraqi National Congress said Tuesday.
Wahid Hamed Tawfiq al-Tikriti, No. 44 on the wanted list and the eight of clubs in the coalition's "deck of cards," turned himself in to the Iraqi National Congress in Baghdad, according to Haidar al-Moussawi, a London-based spokesman for the group. He was being interrogated Tuesday night by U.S. forces and Iraqi National Congress representatives, al-Moussawi said. "They will decide in the field" when to hand him over to U.S. custody, al-Moussawi said. In Doha, Qatar, U.S. Central Command had no comment and could not immediately confirm that the former governor was in custody. Fourteen of the 55 most-wanted members of Saddam's inner circle are already being detained.
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