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Izzat Ibrahim Addouri has resurfaced despite a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head. By Nicola Nasser Addouri Outlines Anti-U.S. Strategy For the first time since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in April 2003, the deputy of Saddam Hussein, the late President of Iraq, Izzat Ibrahim Addouri has resurfaced, despite a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, in a lengthy interview with Abdel-Azim Manaf, the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian newspaper Al-Mawqif Al-Arabi, not a mainstream, on May 26 to lay out the strategy and tactics of the Iraqi resistance led by the former ruling party, Al-Baath. Addouri's resurface and...

IZZAT Ibrahim al-Duri, one of Saddam Hussein's top deputies and a man who eluded US capture despite a hefty bounty on his head, reportedly died quietly overnight at the age of 63. The notice of his death came not from the US military, but from a statement signed by the dissolved Baath Party command. "The leader of the resistance died on Friday November 11 at 2:20 am," according to the statement signed by the Baath command. There was no immediate confirmation of his death. Duri was one of Saddam's most feared right-hand men and was said to be suffering from...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Some 3,000 gunmen have recently been detained in Iraq (news - web sites) in recent days who had been working for a deputy of ousted president Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), the country's interm prime minister said. "In a very short time we have arrested 3,000 gunmen who were working under Izzat al-Duri (the former vice president of Iraq who is still on the run)," Iyad Allawi told a news conference in Baghad. One of Duri's own deputies and his assistant were also detained, he said, adding that the operation was still continuing. "We confiscated a...