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Saddam's former deputy Izzat Ibrahim a
father at 61
24.6.2005
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Baghdad, 24 June (AKI) - Toppled Iraqi president
Saddam Hussein's former deputy Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri,
aged 61, the highest-ranking former regime official
still at large, got married and recently had a baby
daughter after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003,
the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat reported on Friday,
quoting sources close to Iraq's insurgency.
The US has a 10 million dollar bounty on al-Douri,
who is accused of being one of the key organisers of
the insurgency around the Sunni strongholds of
Samarra and Tikrit. Al-Douri, who is the current
secretary general of Iraq's disbanded Baath party,
is one of 55 on the United States' set of playing
cards depicting the most wanted members. So far, 44
of these figures have been caught or killed.
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Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri |
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The Iraqi Baath party's leadership, which is
currently scattered inside and outside of Iraq,
allegedly sent its congratulations to al-Douri on
the birth of his eleventh daughter, named 'Tahir'
which means liberation in Arabic, al-Hayat reported,
quoting sources in London.
Al-Douri also allegedly visited his wife, who is
believed to have given birth to Tahir in the
northern Iraqi city of Mosul before fleeing to an
undisclosed location, al-Hayat said, adding that
aside from a a stomach complaint, al-Douri is
reportedly in good health.
He has contacts inside and outside Iraq who are
giving economic and political support to armed
insurgent groups, according to al-Hayat.
The former chairman of Iraq's Revolutionary Command
Council and deputy chief of the armed forces, al-Douri
is considered to have been Saddam Hussein's
right-hand man.
He was born in Tikrit, Saddam's home town, and was a
key commander in the suppression of the failed Shia
uprising in 1991. He is also alleged to have used
excessive military force against the Marsh Arabs of
the south. He escaped an assassination attempt in
Karbala in 1998. War crimes charges have been issued
against him in Austria.
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