A body believed to be that of Saddam Hussein’s former right-hand man, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, is on its way to Baghdad for DNA testing after claims that he had been killed north of Tikrit.
Al-Douri, a former deputy to the late dictator, was the only figure from the late dictator’s inner circle to escape killing or capture during the American occupation.
He led the Naqshbandi Order, a Sunni insurgent group made up of many former Baathists and Saddam-era military officers who battled the occupation, teaming up with the Islamic State takeover of northern and western Iraq.
He featured as the King of Clubs in the notorious pack of cards issued to every US serviceman and woman in Iraq to aid in their search for members