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April 24, 2008
Saddam's ex-deputy in Syria Leading Insurgents In Iraq
A wanted poster, released by the US-led coalition in Baghdad in 2003, shows Saddam Hussein's number two, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, offering 10 million dollars for his capture.
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Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, who tops the Iraqi government's list of most-wanted fugitives, is in Syria from where he leads the insurgency in Iraq, an Iraqi official said in remarks published Wednesday.
"We have precise and definite information. Izzat al-Duri is in Syria, we know it. He funds several terrorist groups and leads a Baath group," national security adviser Muwaffaq al-Rubaie told the Saudi daily Asharq Al-Awsat.
"We spoke about this to the Syrians several times. They deny his presence (in Syria) despite the evidence we have," he said.
Duri, the most senior official in the ousted Saddam Hussein regime to be still on the run, heads a 41 most-wanted list released by the Iraqi government in 2006 with a 10-million-dollar bounty.
He was Saddam's number two under the former Baath regime and is considered an operational leader with close ties to anti-US insurgents.
Wild Thing's comment........
Sickening! I would love for us to drop a bomb right on this guy while he is saying one of his prayers.
There was an announcement earlier that he was captured but it is a false rumor. This is the lastest from the military.
"The US military on Wednesday denied reports it is holding Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, the number two under Saddam Hussein."We are aware of media reports that Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri has been captured," the military told AFP in an email.
"At this point, we can say that he is not in coalition custody and we have no reports that he was captured by Iraqi security forces either."
Al-Arabiya television channel reported that a man suspected to be Duri, who tops the Iraqi government's list of most-wanted fugitives, has been captured in Iraq."
Posted by Wild Thing at April 24, 2008 02:45 AM
Comments
Sie old LUFTWAFFE would strafe Iraniac villages one at a time until they gave him up, ja vol?
"Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran!"
Posted by: Baron Von Right Often at April 24, 2008 05:00 AM
And Syria tried to tell us they weren't involved.
Yeah right.
Wonder if that's where all the WMDs are, eh?
But we aren't at war with Syria and to attack them without provocation would be an act of war.
Posted by: Lynn at April 24, 2008 07:59 AM
CW says we had Sadam under our thumb and should
have gone full bore into Syria...
Posted by: Tincan Sailor at April 24, 2008 09:58 AM
Maybe Mossad has the means to get this guy. Izzy's insurgency is not doing too well right now. I wonder if his volunteer list is getting short as his boys are getting killed and captured.
Posted by: TomR at April 24, 2008 10:04 AM
Nothing will happen unless coalition forces get lucky and nabs the butcher, hopefully it will be a dead Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri. Damn the show trials.
It seems to me that Iraq has bogged down in their own political correctness or they are just waiting for regime change in the US. Ali Hassan al-Majid better known as Chemical Ali was sentenced to death for genocide last June, he is still alive when Iraqi law specifies that the sentence be carried out within 30 days.
If they are reluctant to carry out that sentence what motivation is there for them to pursue Izzy or Mookie inside or outside Iraq?
Posted by: Jack at April 24, 2008 12:00 PM
Maybe we can get Jimmy Carter and Barack Hussein Obama to meet and talk peace with Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri in Syria. We could easily track those two jokers with a Hellfire missile equipped Predator UAV and..... Ooooooops! Kaboom! A triple header.
Posted by: Les at April 24, 2008 03:28 PM
Baron Von Right Often, das würde wundervoll sein.
( that would be wonderful)
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 24, 2008 07:41 PM
Lynn, yes, this is so dangerous what has been happening. The enemy is everywhere and that makes this even harder.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 24, 2008 07:44 PM
Tincan Sailor, yes..... and now we have this problem.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 24, 2008 07:46 PM
Tom good idea. The Mossad knows these countries so well.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 24, 2008 07:50 PM
Jack oh my gosh I forgot about him. He is still alive? OH NOooo that is terrible!!!!
Yes Iraq has their own PC and I just keep thinking it is under the power somehow of Iran. Maliki is still not cutting himself off from Iran and that bothers me a lot.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 24, 2008 07:52 PM
Les, heh heh now we talking. Thanks for the video. Yes just like that. I'll not shed a tear that's for sure.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 24, 2008 07:54 PM
