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November 12, 2005
Brutal Saddam Hussein aide confirmed dead
Topics: Iraq
News services have confirmed that Saddam Hussein's top aide and comrade, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the last of Saddam Hussein's inner circle still at large in Iraq, has died from natural causes.
"On the blessed soil of Iraq, the soul of our comrade in struggle, and field commander of the heroic resistance, Izzat Ibrahim, passed away to his creator at dawn yesterday," the posting said. The Web site, which is considered an authentic voice of the Baathist underground, gave no cause of death, though Mr. Ibrahim was known to have had leukemia since the late 1990's.
For many Iraqis, Mr. Ibrahim, 63, a former interior minister and vice chairman of the Baath Party's ruling council, was the embodiment of the brutality that characterized many of Mr. Hussein's closest associates.
He was widely feared and despised by the public, on a par with Mr. Hussein's two sons, killed by American troops in 2003, and Ali Hassan al-Majid, the man known as Chemical Ali, who is in American military custody with Mr. Hussein and dozens of other former top Baathist officials.
Now that this man, believed to be the driving force behind the insurgency, is dead, are we going to see an end or rather a tapering off from the suicide bombings? This is a critical question, because the leadership of the Baath Party extremists in Iraq is now in a much larger state of disarray. A man who filled the Iraqi people with fear and loathing is now dead. Will this play any role in the continuation of the violence?
Posted by at November 12, 2005 11:56 PM
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