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(Baghdad, Iraq-AP) -- Saddam Hussein's science adviser has surrendered to U.S. military authorities.

Lieutenant General Amer al-Saadi is insisting that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction and that the U.S.-led invasion was unjustified.

Al-Saadi arranged his surrender with the help of Germany's ZDF television network, which filmed him leaving his Baghdad villa with his German wife, Helga.

Al-Saadi presented himself to an American warrant officer, who escorted him away.

The British-educated al-Saadi is believed to be the first of 55 regime figures sought by the coalition to be taken into custody. He had been wanted for questioning about Iraq's chemical weapons because he was a special weapons adviser to Saddam and oversaw the chemical program in the past.

He's believed to have in-depth knowledge of other weapons program as well.

Al-Saadi told ZDF that he has no information on what happened to Saddam.

(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Date published: 4/12/2003

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