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...negotiations wore on and the pressure mounted, an increasingly desperate Numan apparently tried to take his own life by injecting himself with insulin, but was prevented from doing so by his son. At another point within the last week, the family reportedly placed a public notice in a Baghdad newspaper announcing that Numan had died of a heart attack and that his sister had held a wake at her house in Baghdad...
...That did not fool US forces. When authorities zeroed in on Numan early Thursday morning, they first surrounded the houses of Numan's brother and son-in-law in the posh Baghdad neighborhood of Yarmuk. Numan wasn't at either address, but family members eventually led US forces to the nearby house of Numan's sister, where the fugitive was hiding. Carrying insulin, a few clothes and packs of Kent cigarettes, Numan was led away with his brother and son-in-law, both of whom have since been released...
...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...
...Numan's capture represents an intensification of the US campaign against the one-time Iraqi leadership. Gen. Tommy Franks today ordered all full members of the former ruling Baath Party to identify themselves to the U.S. military. "Go to the nearest U.S. military forces and identify yourselves, and then wait to be told what to do,'' the general's statement said. ?There must be no Baath Party activity, because the party no longer exists.? As many as 1.5 million of Iraq's 24 million people belonged to the party, but only 25,000 to 50,000 were hard core members...
...member of the ruling Baath Party elite, Numan apparently never lost faith in the regimes mission. Receiving a friend in his tony villa near the Tigris less than two weeks before the start of the war, Numan appeared relaxed and confident. Inviting a guest into a living room decorated with pictures of himself posed with Saddam - Numan, wearing a long Arab robe, reportedly said, "The Americans can bomb, but they'll never be able to handle street-to-street fighting. And even if Iraq suffers casualties, the Americans could loose 300 or 400 soldiers and they'll just have...