U.S. Central Command and Pentagon officials, however, have not confirmed the captures.
Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al Sattar Muhammed al Tikriti was Saddam Huseein's armed forces chief of staff and is No. 11 on the U.S. list of 55 "most wanted" Iraqis.
Rihab Taha, known as "Dr. Germ" in the Western media, is not on the "most wanted" list but is of interest because she is credited with being the architect of Iraq's biological weapons program. In an interview with ABC News in February she said all of the weapons had been destroyed after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
The detentions would be the 18th and 19th top Iraqi officials in U.S. custody in Baghdad.
Taha's husband, Amir Rashid Muhammed al Ubaydi, an expert on weapons-delivery systems and was oil minister for Saddam Hussein, surrendered to U.S. officials last month.
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