New leader with the $10m bounty
Ned Parker in Baghdad
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam Hussein’s faithful henchman, now leads the deceased dictator’s Baath party in its fight against the US-backed Iraqi Government.
The 64-year-old fighter, stricken with leukaemia, who befriended Saddam as a young man, supposedly cried and read the Holy Koran when he heard that his comrade had been executed early Saturday morning, a senior Baath official said.
Mr al-Douri had been nominated as the acting general secretary of the Baath party, the official said, who went by the pseudonym “Abu Abdullah”.
Mr al-Douri has had a $10 million US bounty on his head since November 2003. The grizzled hardman defied the odds, staying on the run long after Saddam was captured, hiding three years ago in Ad-Dawr, a village belonging to Mr al- Douri’s tribe.
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Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam Hussein’s faithful henchman, now leads the deceased dictator’s Baath party in its fight against the US-backed Iraqi Government.
The 64-year-old fighter, stricken with leukaemia, who befriended Saddam as a young man, supposedly cried and read the Holy Koran when he heard that his comrade had been executed early Saturday morning, a senior Baath official said.
Mr al-Douri had been nominated as the acting general secretary of the Baath party, the official said, who went by the pseudonym “Abu Abdullah”.
Mr al-Douri has had a $10 million US bounty on his head since November 2003. The grizzled hardman defied the odds, staying on the run long after Saddam was captured, hiding three years ago in Ad-Dawr, a village belonging to Mr al- Douri’s tribe.
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