One of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's closest aides and a figure on the US playing card deck of most-wanted Iraqis died last week in US cus

Saddam lieutenant dies in U.S. custody


Mohammed Hamza al-Zubaidi,
Iraq's prime minister in the early 1990s, died in a US military hospital on December 2, according to Lieutenant Colonel Guy Rudisill, spokesman for detainee operations in Iraq.

His identity had not been previously made public to give time for his next of kin to be informed, US military officials said.

He was only mentioned in a US military statement on Saturday as an unidentified security detainee who was "pronounced dead by the attending physician at the 344th Corps Support Hospital at 7:30am on December 2."

The cause of death was unclear.>>>>cont

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