His capture was also rumored to have taken place around December 2003.
Posted on 04/12/2006 8:30:12 AM PDT by cll
His capture was also rumored to have taken place around December 2003.
It seems to have been his assistant..I am happy for that capture but disappointed the big guy wasn't caught.
He's a ginger.
It seems it was Al Douri's chief of staff, not al Douri himself. Please remove from braking.
As a guide, the file name is "steaming coiler"...
Yeah, At first I thought it was new tabloid photos from his cell.
Turned out to be a Baby Ruth.....
This guy has always looked so British to me. Sir Humphrey Carruthers-Higginbotham III. Smashing good show if we nabbed him, right?
November 11, 2005
Al-Douri Reported Dead
Al-Arabiya television reports that Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, one of Saddam Hussein's key henchman and one of the Baath insurgency's most important figures, has been killed:
Al-Arabiya TV is reporting that Saddam Hussein's former deputy Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri has died. The report quotes a Baath Party statement about the death.
American reporters have not been able to confirm the death, and previous reports of Ibrahim's death or capture have proven to be erroneous. Al-Arabiya is giving no further details on how or where al-Douri may have died.
Ibrahim was the most senior member of the former regime still at large and had been a top insurgent leader. He is sixth on the U.S. military's list of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis, with a $10 million reward offered for his capture.
Reported on Power Line News.
UPDATE: The London Times has more on al-Douri's bloody history; they say he died of leukemia.
**SCHNIPP**
Show me a body. Nothing else will do.
Now secure all sweat-ducts...
Iraqi and US forces have arrested a man believed to be the most-wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the run in a bloody raid in which 70 of his supporters were killed and 80 captured, the Government said.
The Defence Ministry said Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri - who was sixth on the US list of the 55 most-wanted members of Saddam's regime and had a $US10 million ($A14.4 million) price on his head - was captured in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown and powerbase north of Baghdad.
Or as I often say in Chinese restaurants. "Don't order number three, it tastes like number two."
Outstanding!!!
Yeah, he does look like that. But this guy ran through the audience throwing confetti. The other guy ran through Iraq dropping nerve gas and killing Saddam's enimies. I suspect he may be in Syria or Iran. Hope they get the red head red handed!
And I have not comment on the #2. It kind of speaks for itself!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2106276,00.html
Saddam's ex-deputy lobbies for insurgents
By Richard Beeston
SADDAM HUSSEIN’S former deputy resurfaced yesterday, calling on Arab leaders to support the Iraqi insurgency and drop their recognition of the Government in Baghdad.
In an audio message broadcast on al-Jazeera, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri urged the Arab League summit meeting today in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, to recognise “the Iraqi resistance as the sole legitimate representative of the Iraqi people” and to “boycott the regime of agents and traitors”. Four months ago reports suggested that al- Douri had died of cancer. He is one of the last senior figures from the ousted Baathist regime still at large. Al-Douri also called on Iraqis to halt sectarian attacks, saying that they represented “the epitome of vileness, vice and a crime . . . Our people and resistance will take revenge on the perpetrators sooner or later”.
Again? Is Halfarat still dead?
Time to tell a war story-last year the ODA team in Tuz got a tip that Al-Douri was going to his farm in Tikrit to prepare to leave Iraq to seek treatment so they assembled a team to go after him that included the ODA guys, an IA company and part of our squadron as the outer cordon-including my ambulance. We obviously didn't get him, but it was a thrill to work with the snake eaters on a mission.
I think we need to wait for more info
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