"Watban Ibrahim Hasan, Saddam's half-brother who served as interior minister and in other sensitive positions, was captured today by coalition forces in Rabia," northwest of Mosul, said KTV, which is run by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of Massoud Barzani.

Another half-brother, Barzan al-Takriti, was killed Friday morning in US bombing of his farm, in the region of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, a family friend told AFP.

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