Top Saddam official surrenders in Baghdad

A former top official of Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard, and cousin of the deposed leader, surrendered to coalition forces in Baghdad today, the US military said.

Gen Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti, the No 10 on the American “Iraqi Top 55 list,” gave himself up this morning, US Central Command said in a statement issued from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.