Kurds Captured Saddam Deputy

World | August 19, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00

Kurdish fighters in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have captured former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan. Ramadan, widely known as "Saddam's knuckles", was then handed to the US Army. He was on the US "most wanted" list of Iraqi officials and is accused of a role in the repression of Iraqi Kurds as well as Shia Muslims. "I'm really pleased that we captured Ramadan," US president George Bush said Tuesday.

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