Bremer visits Mosul to meet with city council

THE top US official in Iraq went north yesterday, meeting with an American-installed city council in Mosul and surveying the challenges he faces in getting that ethnically volatile section of the country moving once again.

In Baghdad, one of Saddam Hussein’s most trusted generals, the former secretary of the feared Republican Guard, surrendered to US forces on Saturday, the US military said.

Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti, who is also Saddam’s cousin, became only the second top 10 figure from a US list of 55 wanted fugitives to be taken into US custody.