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US issues list of most wanted Iraqi leaders

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The US military has issued a most-wanted list of 55 former leaders in Saddam Hussein's regime to be pursued, captured or killed.
The list, in the form of a "deck of cards" with pictures of the wanted figures, was distributed to the thousands of US troops in the field to help them find the senior members of the government. It also was being put on posters and handbills for the Iraqi public, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said.
Brooks did not identify figures on the list, except to suggest they included Saddam and his minister of information, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, who boasted of battlefield successes right up to the time he disappeared Tuesday.
He said the whereabouts of some of the most-wanted figures were
unknown, while others might well be dead.
"The population will probably confirm that for us," he said. "The key list has 55 individuals who may be pursued, killed or captured, and the list does not exclude leaders who may have already been killed or captured," Brooks said.
The US forces have twice bombed sites where they believe Saddam may have been staying, and his fate is still unknown. One key figure who British and US officials believe is dead is Ali Hassan al-Majid, a former Iraqi defense chief known as "Chemical Ali" for his role in the 1988 chemical weapons attacks on Iraqi Kurds.
The United States does not know whether Saddam Hussein is alive or dead but his fate makes no difference now that the Iraqi regime has SEE PAGE 11 COL 8 FROM PAGE 1
collapsed, Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
"We don't know if he is dead or if he is alive but clearly he is no longer in control," Powell told Indonesia's Metro TV in an interview broadcast late Thursday.
"He hasn't been seen in weeks and none of his other ministers are around today. So we believe that the regime's control has been broken," Powell said in the Washington interview.
"Where he is as an individual I don't know, but it really doesn't make any difference any more. The regime has been brought down and the Iraqi people are now facing a brighter future."
Iraqi television aired footage of Saddam several times following the start of the war on March 20, including an apparent "walkabout" in a Baghdad district before the city fell Wednesday to US forces.
There was speculation that some footage might have been pre-recorded.