Tikriti is listed as number eight in the original list

BAGHDAD, May 18 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - A member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle has surrendered on Saturday, May 17, to the U.S.-led forces in Iraq, where a mass grave believed to hold hundreds of Kuwaiti prisoners of war was uncovered outside Baghdad.

General Kamal Mustafa Abdallah Sultan Al-Tikriti, former secretary general of Iraq's elite Republican Guard, surrendered to U.S.-led forces early Saturday in Baghdad, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported, according to a U.S. Central Command statement in Dubai.

He was listed as number eight in the original list of 55 most-wanted leaders of the deposed regime that the U.S. military published in April 2003.

On May 8, a top U.S. law official said a "special" Iraqi tribunal could be set up to try toppled Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, if caught, and members of his regime for crimes against the Iraqi people.

But the U.S. administration unveiled on March 31 that it might ship some detained Iraqi civilians - accused by the U.S. of belonging to paramilitary squads - to the controversial detention center at its naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Meanwhile, the new U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, arrived in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, May 18.

Bremer was to meet U.S. Major General David Petraeus, commanding officer of the 101st Airborne Division, who helped organize local elections here earlier this month.

On the flight in to Mosul, Bremer was briefed on the security situation in the city, which includes a rich but sometimes volatile mix of ethnic communities, including Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen and Assyrian Christians.

On Friday, May 16, the U.S. civilian administrator to Iraq, Paul Bremer issued a decree banning all former Baath Party members from public sector jobs.

U.S. officials estimated the decree would affect between 15,000 and 30,000 senior Baath members under Saddam Hussein's deposed regime.

Mass Grave Uncovered

Journalists gather to be briefed close to an exhumed mass grave, thought to contain up to 600 Kuwaiti POWs executed in 1991 in Habbaniya

Also Saturday, members of the Pentagon-backed Iraqi National Congress said that a mass grave thought to contain up to 600 Kuwaiti prisoners of war executed in 1991 after the first Gulf War was uncovered west of Baghdad, AFP learnt.

National Congress officials that escorted reporters on a tour of the site said they had so far dug up some 40 sets of human remains following a tip-off from an Iraqi involved in the burial here.

"A witness approached us and told us that 600 Kuwaiti prisoners had been executed and buried here in August 1991. He gave us detailed maps and an account of what happened," INC official Abdul Aziz al-Qubaysi told reporters.

"When we came here and dug a little we found human remains," he added.

Kuwaiti investigators were due to arrive at the site in a few days, an official from the POWs committee in Kuwait told AFP.

A top United Nations official visiting Iraq said Saturday that U.S. and British forces must do more to restore law and order in the country.

"They have to explain what further measures they are going to implement to improve the situation, so that better law and order is brought back," said U.N. Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Kenzo Oshima.