BAGHDAD, Dec 2 Kyodo U forces may...

BAGHDAD, Dec 2 Kyodo

U forces may have killed or captured Izzat Ibrahim, a top delegate of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and common of the most wanted men in Iraq, in a raid near the northern city of Kirkuk, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council said Tuesday.

''There was a major action against a highly suspicious objective last night in Kirkuk and it is surpassingly possible that Izzat Ibrahim has been captured or killed,'' Mowaffaq al-Rubaie told Reuter just discovereds agency.

The report quot local police as saying that Saddam's right-hand man had been establish in a raid in the town of Hawija, west of Kirkuk.

U forces in late November detained Ibrahim's wife and daughter in the town of Samarra north of Baghdad for questioning forward his whereabouts.

The US-l coalition impose a $10 million bounty forward Ibrahim, who is suspected of leading the anti-U.S. insurgency. He is sixth forward the U.S. list of the 55 top Iraqi fugitives.

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