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Kurdish forces nab Iraqi vice president
Following U.S. approval, native
soldiers captured the 20th most
wanted former Iraqi official, Vice
President Taha Yassin Ramadan
By Alex Rodriguez
Chicago Tribune (KRT)
SLI LAYMAN IYAI I, Iraq — Kurdish
forces captured Saddam Hussein's
vice president during a predawn raid
Tuesday in the northern city of Mosul,
turning over to the U.S. military a no
toriously ruthless henchman known
as "Saddam's knuckles."
Soldiers with the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan found Taha Yassin Ra
madan, disguised in Arab peasant
clothes, in a two-story home owned
by his family. I le was No. 20 on the
U.S. list of the 55 most-wanted mem
bers of Saddam's regime.
The PUK was one of two Kurdish or
ganizations that fought alongside U.S.
troops in northern Iraq during the war.
The PUK and the other group, the Kur
dish Democratic Party, share local gov
ernance of the swath of northern Iraq
regarded as Kurdish territory.
PlIK authorities at the organiza
tion's headquarters in Sulaymaniyah
said they staked out Ramadan's move
ments the last two weeks. 1 le traveled
between farmhouses owned by his
family in the Mosul area. Informants
with links to Ramadan's bodyguards
gave PUK leaders strong leads that led
to his capture, said Sadi Pire, the
PUK's representative in Mosul.
Ramadan, 65, was at a house in
Mosul with one of his wives, a broth
er-in-law and several bodyguards,
PUK officials said. No shots were fired
during the raid, Pire said.
The li.S. military did not take part
in the raid but had been informed
ahead of time and signaled its ap
proval, Pire said.
President Bush said he was "really
pleased that we've captured the vice
president. Slowly but surely we'll find
who we need to find."
Ramadan was briefly interrogated
by PUK forces before being handed
over to the U S. 101st Airborne Divi
sion. U.S. military' officials in Sulay
maniyah refused to comment on Ra
madan's capture.
A PUK official, speaking on condi
tion of anonymity, said Ramadan pro
vided "good information" about the
whereabouts of other key Saddam
regime figures sought by the U.S.
"Now we have a good chance to find
more people," the official said.
It was in Mosul that Saddam's two
oldest sons, Odai and Qusai, were
killed by U.S. troops last month dur
ing an hours-long gunfight at the villa
the sons were using as a hideout.
A former bank clerk, Ramadan be
came close with Saddam after joining
the Baath Party in the mid-1950s. In
the 1980s, Ramadan became deputy
prime minister and was regarded as
Saddam's right-hand man. Saddam
named him vice president after Iraq's
defeat in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Feared by Iraqis as a figure almost
as ruthless as Saddam, Ramadan has
been singled out by Iraqi opposition
groups as one of the regime members
who should face trial for war crimes.
In 1970, he oversaw a court that or
dered the executions of 44 officers ac
cused of plotting a coup.
"He was a despicable character,"
said Barham Saleh, the PlIK's prime
minister, during an interview at his
home in Sulaymaniyah. "He was a
senior lieutenant to Saddam I lussein
and he was involved in Hussein's dirty
violence directed at the Iraqi people."
With Ramadan's capture, 38 people
on the U.S. list of most-wanted regime
members have been seized or killed.
(c) 2003, Chicago tribune. Distributed
by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information
Services.
Blackout prompts energy legislation push
Lawmakers have focused their
attention on regulations to help
prevent a blackout like last week’s
that left millions without power
By James Kuhnhenn
and Seth Borenstein
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WASHINGTON — The power
blackout that cascaded from Ohio to
New York City last week is giving mo
mentum to stalled energy legislation
that would beef up federal authority
over the nation's electrical power grid.
To get that, however, President
Bush may have to give up his insis
tence on drilling for oil in the Arctic.
Bush on Tuesday called on Congress
to act quickly and the chairman of the
I louse Energy and Commerce Com
mittee promised to deliver a compre
hensive bill by the end of September.
Some House Democrats have
pressed for streamlined, electricity
only legislation since the outages
’Thursday that left millions of Ameri
cans and Canadians powerless. But
the Bush administration wants law
makers to work out differences on
broader energy legislation that have
lingered in Congress for two years.
Bush's call to approve drilling for
oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge has been the biggest obstacle
to passage of an energy bill because of
staunch environmental opposition
and threatened filibusters in the Sen
ate by Democrats.
The 1 louse and Senate have passed
differing energy bills that lobbyists
and industry observers had thought
could take months to reconcile. But
last week's power outage focused at
tention on the little noticed and less
understood electricity provisions in
the bill — proposals that the electrical
industry and federal regulators believe
could help avoid future blackouts.
"Now is the time for the Congress to
move and get something done," Bush
said Thursday, speaking to reporters at
a gas station in Crawford, Texas
Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., the chair
man of the 1 louse Energy and Com
merce Committee, said he would con
vene hearings Sept. 3 and 4 to
investigate the outages and said he
pledged to Bush that Congress would
complete an energy bill soon.
"1 assured him that we will have a
comprehensive energy bill ready for fi
nal congressional action by the end of
September," Tauzin said in a statement.
Bush and Tauzin said the key elec
tricity provisions would require that
electric companies comply with a set of
standards that assure reliable and se
cure power transmission. Under air
rent law, such compliance is voluntary.
"What that means is that compa
nies transmitting energy will have to
have strong reliability measures in
place, otherwise there will be conse
quences for them," Bush said.
Tauzin also promised to make it
easier to install transmission lines
over the objections of environmental
ists or property owners. That proposal
is likely to be contentious because of
the influence of property rights advo
cates in the Senate.
Many senators also want to delay a
proposed regulation by the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission to set
up regional transmission organiza
tions to administer a national pricing
system. The House is silent on the
proposal but senators from states
with low electrical costs want to delay
the plan for two years.
The I louse and Senate conference
that will work out differences between
the bills also will face other con
tentious energy proposals, including
an effort by Sen. Pete Domenici, R
N.M., the chairman of the Senate En
ergy and Natural Resources Commit
tee, to provide tax incentives for new
nuclear power plants.
Some Democrats and industry
watchers preferred a more targeted re
sponse to the power outage, suggest
ing that Congress would have an easi
er time working out differences with a
narrowly tailored electricity bill.
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham
on Tuesday said the electricity provi
sions still would be difficult to work
out. "Anybody who's followed it
closely knows how challenging com
promise legislation on just electricity
alone is," he said.
(cj 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune
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