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...Central Command that offered no detail. But TIME has learned that Numan's capture followed a three-week back-and-forth negotiation involving Numan's family and other intermediaries, a scenario not unlike the one that paved the way for the surrender of deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz to US forces on April...
...last public mention of Aziz Saleh Numan - the King of Diamonds in the US deck of most-wanted Iraqis - came on March 24. It was only days after U.S. forces launched the war. In a broadcast apparently intended to show that Saddam was still in charge, the "Voice of Youth Radio,? a station run by Uday, Saddam's eldest son, reported that the Iraqi president met with Numan, and Republican Guard chief Qusay Hussein, another of Saddam's sons...
...taken 25 of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis into custody. But despite the negotiations, Numan's capture was not voluntary - unlike that of deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz. Aziz was allowed to give himself up to US authorities after which his immediate relatives and the family members of other Iraqi elites were reportedly flown out of the country on a US C130...
...biggest coups of the antiterrorism campaign so far, they grabbed a Yemeni al-Qaeda leader named Waleed Muhammad bin Attash along with five Pakistanis who had stashed 330 lbs. of explosives and weapons under the produce. Another big fish netted in the raid was Ali Abd al-Aziz, a bin Laden bagman who, U.S. officials tell TIME, funneled nearly $120,000 to the Sept. 11 hijackers. Aziz could help expose the secret financial networks that fund al-Qaeda operations...
Saudi Arabian Defense Minister Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz must have privately cheered last week after the U.S. announced that thousands of its troops stationed in his country would soon be gone. Their posting has long been a prickly political matter for the Saudis and has provided a fat target for al-Qaeda's propaganda. Osama bin Laden considered the foreign military presence sacrilegious and made the removal of U.S. soldiers a central objective of his holy war against the West...