Top Iraqi scientist captured: US defense official

  US forces have taken into custody one of Iraq's top scientists involved in the country's weapons of mass destruction program, US defense officials said Monday.

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  An Iraqi man waits for buying gasoline at the Al Bayaa gas station in Baghdad May 1. (Xinhua Photo)


  A Saudi Arabian soldier maintains order as Iraqi patients wait for medical treatment in line outside a temporary hospital in western Baghdad April 30. (Xinhua Photo)

  An Iraqi prisoner of war, carrying a bag on his back, prepares to take a Basra-bound bus in Bucca camp, which lies near the southern Iraqi port of Umm Qasr, April 27. (Xinhua Photo)


  A 30-year-old Iraqi man looks sad while holding his child in the arm who is seriously burnt in an explosion of a coalition ammunition depot in southern Baghdad, April 26. More than ten people are killed and a number of others injured in the accident. (Xinhua Photo)


  An Iraqi boy stands beside a magazine booth in the street of Bagdad April 27. (Xinhua Photo)


  Xu Xiaoxi (Front L), trade counsellor of the Chinese Embassy to Jordan, and Abdu Salam (R), secretary-general of the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization, sign their names during the handover ceremony of the humanitarian aid by China in Amman, April 21, 2003. 500 tents, as the first batch of humanitarian aid by China, were handed over to the charity organization to be distributed to the Iraqi refugees in Amman. (Xinhua Photo)

 

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