U.S. list of most wanted Iraqis

In April 2003, the United States drew up a list of most wanted Iraqis, consisting of the 55 members of the deposed Iraqi regime whom they most wanted to capture. The list was turned into a set of playing cards and distributed to United States troops. (See Most wanted Iraqi playing cards.)

Table of contents

1 The list 1.1 Abbreviations 2 See also 3 External links

The list

All dates in this list are in the year 2003.

No.	Name	Title	Status
1.	Saddam Hussein	President of Iraq/CINC of Military	Rumored to have been killed on March 20, April 7, etc. May still be at large.
2.	Qusay Hussein	SSO, SRG & RGFC Commander	Killed on July 22
3.	Uday Hussein	Saddam Fedayeen Commander	Killed on July 22
4.	Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti	Presidential Secretary (WMD Release Authority)	Held as captive since June 16
5.	Ali Hassan al-Majid	Pres. Advisor, Fmr South Reg Cmdr	Captured on August 21 (after being thought to have been killed on April 5)
6.	Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri	Vice Chair of the RCC, North Reg Cmdr
7.	Hani Abd Latif Tilfa al-Tikriti	SSO Director
8.	Aziz Salih Numan	BP Regional Cmdr/Cmdr BP Militia - Reg Cmd	Held as captive since May 22
9.	Muhammad Hazma al-Zubaydi	Central Euphrates Reg Cmdr	Held as captive since April 20
10.	Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti	RG Secretary	Held as captive since May 17
11.	Barzan Abd Ghafur Sulayman al-Tikriti	SRG Commander	Held as captive since July 23
12.	Muzahim Sa'b Hassan al-Tikriti	Air Defense Force Commander	Held as captive since April 23
13.	Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al-Sattar Muhammad al-Tikriti	Armed Forces Chief of Staff	Held as captive since May 15
14.	Sayf al-Din Fulayyih Hassan Taha al-Rawi	RG Chief of Staff
15.	Rafi Abd Latif al-Tilfah	DGS Director
16.	Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti	IIS Director
17.	Hamid Raja Shalah al-Tikriti	Air Force Commander	Held as captive since June 14
18.	Latif Nussayif al-Jasim al-Dulaymi	Dep Chmn Baath Party	Held as captive since June 9
19.	Abd al-Tawab Mullah Huwaysh	OMI Director (WMD Production)	Held as captive since May 2
20.	Taha Yasin Ramadan	Vice President	Held as captive since August 20
21.	Rukan Razuki abd al-Ghaful Sulayman al-Tikriti	Chief of Tribal Affairs
22.	Jamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti	Deputy Chief of Tribal Affairs	Held as captive since April 20, turned over to the Coalition on April 21
23.	Mizban Khidir al-Hadi	RCC Member, Reg CDR Central Euphrates Region	Held as captive since July 9
24.	Taha Muhyl al-Din Maruf	Vice President and RCC Member	Held as captive since May 2
25.	Tariq Aziz	Deputy Prime Minister	Surrendered on April 25
26.	Walid Hamid Tawfiq al-Tikriti	Governor of Basrah Governate	Surrendered on April 29
27.	Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tal	Minister of Defense	Surrendered on September 19
28.	Hikmat al-Azzawi	Dep Prime Minister, Economics & Finance Min.	Held as captive since April 18
29.	Mahmud Dhiyab al-Ahmad	Minister of the Interior	Surrendered on August 8
30.	Ayad Futayyih Khalifa al-Rawi	Al Quds Force Chief of Staff	Held as captive since June 4
31.	Zuhayr Talib Abd al-Sattar al-Naqib	DMI Director	Held as captive since April 23
32.	Amir Hamudi Hasan al-Sadi	Presidential Scientific Adviser/NMD Dir Gen	Surrendered on April 12
33.	Amir Muhammad Rashid al-Ubaydi	Presidential Advisor	Held as captive since April 28
34.	Husam Muhammad al-Yasin	National Monitoring Director	Held as captive since April 27
35.	Muhammad Mahdi al-Salih	Minister of Trade	Held as captive since April 23
36.	Sabawi Ibrahim	Baath Party, Saddam Maternal Half Brother
37.	Watban Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti	Baath Party, Saddam Half Brother	Held as captive since April 13
38.	Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti	Baath Party, Saddam Half Brother	Held as captive since April 16
39.	Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash	Party Youth & Trade Bureau Chairman	Held as captive since May 9
40.	Abd al-Baqi abd Karim al-Sadun	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Baghdad
41.	Muhammad Zimam Abd al-Razzaq al-Sadun	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Ta'mim & Ninawa Gov
42.	Samir abd al-Aziz al-Najm	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Diyal Gov.	Held as captive since April 17
43.	Humam Abd al-Khaliq Abd al-Ghafur	Min of Higher Education & Scientific Research	Held as captive since April 19
44.	Yahya Abdallah al-Ubaydi	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Basrah Gov.
45.	Nayif Shindakh Thamir	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Salah ad Din Gov.
46.	Sayf al-Din al-Mashhadani	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Muthanna Gov.	Held as captive since May 24
47.	Fadil Mahmud Gharib	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Babil/Karbala Gov.	Held as captive since May 15
48.	Muhsin Khadar al-Khafaji	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Qadasiyah Gov.
49.	Rashid Taan Kazim	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Anbar Governate
50.	Uglah Abid Siqir al-Kubaysi	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Maysan Governate	Held as captive since May 20
51.	Ghazi Hammud al-Ubaydi	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Wasit Gov.	Held as captive since May 7
52.	Adil Abdallah Mahdi al-Duri al-Tikriti	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Dhi Qar Governate	Held as captive since May 15
53.	Husayn al-Awawi	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Ninawa Governate	Held as captive since June 9
54.	Khamis Sirhan al-Muhammad	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia - Karbala Governate
55.	Sad Abd al-Majid al-Faysal	BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia -	Held as captive since May 24

Abbreviations

• BP - Ba'ath Party
• CDR - Commander
• CINC - Commander in Chief
• DGS - Directorate Of General Security
• DMI - Directorate Of Military Intelligence
• IIS - Iraqi Intelligence Service
• NMD - National Monitoring Directorate
• OMI - Organization Of Military Industrialization
• RCC - Revolutionary Command Council
• RG - Republican Guard
• RGFC - Republican Guard Force Command
• SSO - Special Security Organization
• SRG - Special Republican Guard
• WMD - Weapons of mass destruction

• Most wanted Iraqi playing cards
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• 2003 Iraq war timeline
• Torture and murder in Iraq

• "Iraqi 55 Most Wanted" - the United States Central Command page from which the above table was copied (a public domain resource)
• "Personality Identification Playing Cards" - a U.S. Department of Defense page showing the most wanted Iraqi playing cards