- Iraqi police have captured Saddam Hussein's finance minister and handed him over to U.S. forces, raising hopes of tracing billions of dollars the deposed Iraqi leader is believed to have stashed away.
As the U.S. military took custody of Hikmat Ibrahim al-Azzawi, number 45 on its list of most-wanted Iraqis, eight Middle Eastern states urged Washington to withdraw its troops from Iraq and keep its hands off the country's oil wealth.
U.S. Marines began pulling out of Baghdad but only as part of a planned handover to the U.S. Army, which is better equipped to handle the reconstruction of the heavily bombed capital.
A convoy of 50 trucks was heading from Jordan to Baghdad carrying food, but aid agencies said repairing Iraq's collapsed infrastructure and establishing a new government were more urgent priorities.