US forces have in custody Saddam Hussein's half brother after he was captured in Iraq near the Syrian border,
US officials said on April 13, 2003. Watban Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti was
captured recently by non-American elements and turned over to the US military. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein sits between Sadoun Hamadi, the head of Iraq's parliament (2nd L), Watban Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti (R) in Baghdad in this 1999 file photo.
— Reuters
