'Key fugitive Saddam aide dead'

BBC ^ | 11/11/05

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One of Saddam Hussein's closest aides, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has died, Iraq's former ruling Baath party says. "The leader of the resistance... died on 11 November, at 0220 [Thursday 2320 GMT]," the statement said. There is no independent confirmation.

Mr Douri, 63, was the most senior figure in the former regime still at large. The US had offered a $10m reward for information leading to his capture.

In recent years he was accused of financing insurgent groups in Iraq.

Kurdish threat

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri was number six on the US list of 55 most-wanted members of Saddam Hussein's regime. The top five have all been captured.

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Al-Douri had been Saddam's vice chairman of the Ba'ath "revolutionary council". He also had close ties to Islamists and was reported by Saddam's state-run newspaper in 1993 to have hosted a conference of over 1000 terrorists urging them to "conduct holy jihad against the United States".

[GSlob]

Has it been verified? Otherwise it might be a bit too convenient for him and his.

[clee1]

"Mr. Douri died from 4 self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head."

[traderrob6]

Great, save 10 mil and the cost of a hangin.

[kromike]

No kidding; he must have double-crossed the Clintons.

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[Puppage]

There is no independent confirmation

ie He ain't dead.

[jw777]

a ploy to have us stop looking for him, while he continues to coordinate attacks

[counterpunch]

The BBC is skeptical of anything said by Bush or Blair, but report uncorroborated claims made by the Ba'ath party as unquestionable truth.



 

[Sacajaweau]

Guess his expertise wasn't "guns".

[DogBarkTree]

BBC story. Might as well be BBS. Im not buying this till we see his stinking corpse wrapped in pig skin.

[clee1]

Either that, or he had a real death-grip on the gun.

[reagan_fanatic]

ie He ain't dead

Very possible. Perhaps the good guys are getting a little to close to finding him and things need to cool off a bit.

[Danae]

It's a good day to be alive to see that one dead!

[theDentist]

"The leader of the resistance... died on 11 November, at 02:20"

... at the end of a rope?

[ozzymandus]

Is this the red-haired creep they never found?

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Yep, it is the red-haired creep.

[ozzymandus]

Quite a blow for the RATS, since they said we couldn't win until we caught this guy. I doubt if anybody will mention that, though.

[Verginius Rufus]

ie He ain't dead.

Yep, he's just pining for the fjords.

[Sacajaweau]

True or false, it should produce "squirming" in the intelligence world.