U.S. MILITARY CARD SHOWS IRAQ'S FORMER DEFENCE MINISTER SULTAN HASHIM AHMED

Iraq's former Defence Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmed, number 27 on Washington's wanted list of former top officials under Saddam Hussein, has surrendered to U.S. forces, a mediator said September 19, 2003. Dawood Bagistani, a local human rights official who has acted as go-between in talks with Ahmed, told Reuters the surrender would be officially announced later at a news conference in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/HO