Cards Dealt So Far
(Explanation here.)
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I. Ba'ath Poker: The Deal So Far
| Note: On May 15th, CentCom reordered their List of 55 to better match the Deck of 52, so this file was completely rewritten as described in this post. There are still some discrepancies between different sources, but this is as accurate as I can make it at the moment. | ||
| 1. |  |
Name: Amir Hamudi Hasan al-Saadi. Title: Presidential Scientific Adviser. Rank: 32 of 55 (55 on the original list). Surrendered April 12, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 2. |  |
Name: Watban Ibrahim Hasan al-Takriti (Saddam Hussein's
half-brother). Title: Presidential Adviser, former Intelligence Minister, former Interior Minister. Rank: 37 of 55 (51 on the original list). Captured by Kurdish forces April 13, 2003. First reports said it was his brother Barzan, but he was picked up later: see next entry. Source: Command Post, updated here. |
| 3. |  |
Name: Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Takriti (Saddam Hussein's
half-brother). Title: Presidential Adviser, former director of the Mukhabarat, former ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva. Rank: 38 of 55 (52 on the original list). Captured April 16, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 4. |  |
Name: Samir Abd al-Aziz al-Najim. Title: Ba'ath Party Chairman and Commander of Ba'ath Party Militia - Diyal Governate. Rank: 42 of 55 (24 on the original list). Captured by Kurdish forces on April 17, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 5. |  |
Name: Hikmat Ibrahim al-Azzawi. Title: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister. Rank: 28 of 55 (45 on the original list). Turned in by Iraqi police in Baghdad, April 18, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 6. |  |
Name: Humam Abd al-Khaliq Abd al-Ghafur. Title: Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research. Rank: 43 of 55 (54 on the original list). Captured April 19, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 7. |  |
Name: Muhammad Hazmaq al Zubaydi. Title: Central Euphrates Region Commander. Rank: 9 of 55 (18 on the original list). Captured April 20, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 8. |  |
Name: Jamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti (Saddam Hussein's
son-in-law and private secretary). Title: Deputy Head of Tribal Affairs. Rank: 22 of 55 (40 on the original list). Taken into custody by Iraqi National Congress forces while returning from Syria, April 20, 2003, turned over to U.S. forces the next day. Source: Command Post. |
| 9. |  |
Name: Gen. Muzahim Sa'b Hasan Al Tikriti. Title: Commander of Air Defense Forces. Rank: 12 of 55 (10 on the original list). Captured: April 23, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 10. |  |
Name: Gen. Zuhayr Talib Abd al-Sattar al-Naqib. Title: Director of Military Intelligence. Rank: 31 of 55 (21 on the original list). Captured: April 23, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 11. |  |
Name: Muhammad Mahdi al-Salih. Title: Minister of Trade. Rank: 35 of 55 (48 on the original list). Captured: April 23, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 12. |  |
Name: Tariq Aziz Title: Deputy Prime Minister. Rank: 25 of 55 (43 on the original list). Captured by: Turned self in April 25, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| Wild Card: | Name: Farouk Hijazi Title: "former intelligence chief". Rank: unranked, but "very important". Captured near the Syrian border, April 24, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
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| 13. |  |
Name: Lt. Gen. Hossan Mohammed Amin. Title: Iraqi National Monitoring Director (liaison with UN weapons inspectors). Rank: 34 of 55 (49 on the original list). Captured near the Syrian border, April 27, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 14. |  |
Name: Amir Rashid Muhammad al Ubaydi. Title: former Oil Minister (and husband of 'Dr. Germ'). Rank: 33 of 55 (47 on the original list). Surrendered April 28, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 15. |  |
Name: Walid Hamid Tawfiq al-Tikriti. Title: Governor of Basrah Governate. Rank: 26 of 55 (44 on the original list). Surrendered April 29, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 16. |  |
Name: Abd al Tawab Mullah Huwaysh. Title: Director, Office of Military Industrialization. Rank: 19 of 55 (16 on the original list). Captured May 2, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 17. |  |
Name: Taha Muhyl al Din Maruf. Title: Vice President; member of Revolutionary Command Council. Rank: 24 of 55 (42 on the original list). Captured May 2, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 18. |  |
Name: Ghazi Hamud al Adib. Title: Ba'ath Party Chairman and Commander of Ba'ath Party Militia - Wasit Governate (Kut district). Rank: 51 of 55 (32 on the original list). Taken into custody May 7, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 19. |  |
Name: Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash ('Mrs. Anthrax'). Title: Party Youth and Trade Bureau Chairman. Rank: 39 of 55 (53 on the original list). First reports said she turned herself in May 4, 2003, but CentCom says taken into custody May 9th. They ought to know, so I've used the latter on my graphs below. Source: Command Post. |
| 20. |  |
Name: Gen. Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al-Sattar Muhammed al-Tikriti. Title: Armed Forces Chief of Staff. Rank: 13 of 55 (11 on the original list). Taken into custody May 15, 2003. Source: UPI. |
| 21. |  |
Name: Fadil Mahmud Gharib. Title: Ba'ath Party Chairman and Commander of Ba'ath Party Militia - Babil/Karbala Governate. Rank: 47 of 55 (28 on the original list). Taken into custody May 15, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 22. |  |
Name: Adil Abdallah Mahdi al-Duri al-Tikriti. Title: Ba'ath Party Chairman and Commander of Ba'ath Party Militia - Dhi Qar Governate. Rank: 52 of 55 (33 on the original list). Taken into custody May 15, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 23. |  |
Name: Gen. Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan al-Tikriti. Title: Commander, Special Republican Guard. (CentCom says: "Secretary, Republican Guard/special Republican Guard (RG/SRG)", which is probably the same thing.) Rank: 10 of 55 (8 on the original list). Taken into custody May 17, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 24. |  |
Name: Uglah Abid Saqir al-Kubaysi. Title: Ba'ath Party Chairman and Commander of Ba'ath Party Militia - Maysan Governate. Rank: 50 of 55 (31 on the original list). Taken into custody May 20, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 25. |  |
Name: Aziz Salih al-Numan. Title: Regional Command Chairman For Ba’ath Party Baghdad. Rank: 8 of 55 (17 on the original list). Taken into custody May 22, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 26. |  |
Name: Sayf al-Din al-Mashhadani. Title: Ba'ath Party Chairman and Commander of Ba'ath Party Militia - Al-Muthanna Governate. Rank: 46 of 55 (27 on the original list). Taken into custody May 24, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 27. |  |
Name: Sad Abd al-Majid al-Faysal. Title: Ba'ath Party Chairman and Commander of Ba'ath Party Militia - Salah al-Din Governate. Rank: 55 of 55 (36 on the original list). Taken into custody May 24, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 28. |  |
Name: Ayad Futayyih Khalifa al Rawi. Title: Al Quds Force Chief of Staff. Rank: 30 of 55 (20 on the original list). Taken into custody June 4, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 29. |  |
Name: Latif Nussayif al Jasim al Dulaymi. Title: Deputy Chariman, Ba'ath Party. Rank: 18 of 55 (37 on the original list). Taken into custody on or before June 10, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 30. | Wild Card: | Name: Husayn al Awawi. Title: Ba'ath Party Chairman and Commander of Ba'ath Party Militia - Ninawa Governate. Rank: 53 of 55 (34 on the original list). No card, since there are only 52 cards for 55 wanted Iraqis. I've numbered him as the 30th capture since he is on the list of 55. Taken into custody on or before June 10, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 31. |  |
Name: Hamid Raja Shalah al-Tikriti. Title: Air Force Commander. Rank: 17 of 55 (15 on the original list). Taken into custody on or before June 14, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 32. |  |
Name: Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti. Title: Presidential Secretary, national security adviser, and head bodyguard. Rank: 4 of 55 (on both lists). Taken into custody on or before June 18, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 33. |  |
Name: Mizban Khadr Hadi (or 'al-Hadi'). Title: Regional Commander, Central Euphrates Region; Member, Revolutionary Command Council. Rank: 23 of 55 (41 on the original list). Taken into custody July 8, 2003. Many news sources reported his capture on May 1st, but that was never confirmed by CentCom and was apparently false. Source: Command Post. |
| 34. |  |
Name: Mahmud Dhiyab al-Ahmad. Title: Minister of the Interior. Rank: 29 of 55 (46 on the original list). Taken into custody July 8, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 35. |  |
Name: Qusay Hussein. Title: Commander of the SSO (Special Security Organization), SRG (Special Republican Guard), and RGFC (Republican Guard Forces Command), son and heir apparent of Saddam Hussein. Rank: 2 of 55 on both lists. Killed while resisting arrest July 22, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 36. |  |
Name: Uday Hussein. Title: Commander of the Saddam Fedayeen, eldest son of Saddam Hussein. Rank: 3 of 55 on both original lists. Killed while resisting arrest July 22, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 37. |  |
Name: Barzan Abd Ghafur Sulayman al Tikriti. Title: Special Republican Guard Commander. Rank: 11 of 55 (9 on the original list). Taken into custody July 23, 2003. Source: Rantburg. |
| 38. |  |
Name: Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi. Title: Vice President. Rank: 20 of 55 (38 on the original list). Captured (reportedly by Kurdish forces) on August 19, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 39. |  |
Name: Ali Hasan al-Majid al-Tikriti, aka "Chemical Ali". Title: Member, Revolutionary Command Council (RCC); Commander, Ba'ath Party Regional Command; Presidential Advisor; Head Of Central Workers Bureau. Rank: 5 of 55 (9 on the original list). Capture announced August 21, 2003. Source: Command Post. |
| 40. |  |
Name: Gen. Sultan Hashim Ahmed al-Jabburi al-Tai. Title: Defense Minister. Rank: 27 of 55 (19 on the original list). Taken into custody September 19, 2003. Source: TBD. |
| 41. |  |
Name: Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti. Title: President; Chairman, Revolutionary Command Council (RCC). Rank: 1 of 55 (1 on the original list). Captured December 13, 2003. Source: any news medium whatsoever on December 14th. |
| Sources: Defense Department 55 Most Wanted page for pictures of the cards (most now crossed off) and latest information on names, titles, and official dates of capture. For a convenient list of poker hands that can be built from these cards, see Priorities and Frivolities by 'Boomshock' (12:17 PM on 7/23 if the direct link doesn't work). | ||
These charts compare the names on the 55 most wanted lists to the 52 names in the deck of cards, with those captured so far in bold face. The List of 55 was rearranged on or shortly before May 15th to better match the deck of cards. Numbers 26 (I think), 34, and 35 on the original list of 55 and 53-55 on the revised list were omitted from the deck of cards. As you can see, with one exception, the revised list exactly matches the deck of cards, as long as we used the implied CentCom order of the suits (Spades, Clubs, Hearts, Diamonds) rather than official poker order (Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs). The single exception is that number 55, captured May 24th, is the Three of Spades. That card rightly belongs to number 45, but there seems to have been a mixup somewhere along the way. Around the time the list was reordered, and perhaps before that, numbers 45 and 55 were both listed as Ba'ath Party Chairman and Commander of Ba'ath Party Militia for Salah al-Din Governate. It looks as if CentCom mixed up two different chairmen, thus damaging the symmetry and order of the list -- not that it matters much: they're both relatively small fish in the Ba'ath party pond.
This paragraph and these charts were rewritten on May 28th.
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III. Graphs Comparing Rank to Date of Capture
| In the Deck of 52: |
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The first graph represents the date on the horizontal axis, the rank of the captured individual on the vertical axis. Ranks are defined by the Centcom deck of cards, which now (starting March 15th) almost exactly matches the Centcom list of 55: the Aces are 1-4, Kings 5-8, and so on down to the Twos, 49-52. The one exception is that numbers 53-55 on the list of 55 should have been omitted from the deck, but it appears that 45 was omitted and 55 included, possibly by mistake (see previous section). The man who was captured first was the Seven of Diamonds, number 32 on the list of 55, so he is placed at the bottom edge of the Seven band. The dot for number 1, the Ace of Spades, Saddam himself, would be touching the horizontal line near the top of the graph, if he had been captured or proved dead. As with the charts in section II, I follow the Centcom ordering of the suits: Spades, Clubs, Hearts, Diamonds. Those captured on the same day are joined by vertical lines for clarity. The chart begins on April 9th, when Hussein's statue was toppled in Baghdad, and goes through the date of the third-to-last capture, on August 21, 2003. I have given up extending it to the right since recent captures have been so few and far between.
| On the Unrevised List of 55: |
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The second graph is for historical purposes. Here, the vertical axis represents the rank of each captured individual on the original 55 Most Wanted list, which was quite different from the deck of cards. (The charts in Section II will serve as a cross-reference.) For instance, number 18 was the Queen of Spades, and number 20 the Seven of Clubs. As it happens, number 55 (now renumbered 32) was captured first, on April 12th, so his dot on the left graph touches the bottom edge.
