Most Wanted Saddam Capo Reported Captured
This guy is the weirdest looking fucking Baathist this side of Hell…he had been, if I recall correctly, kicking back in the nice safe confines of Syria with no problems obtaining viagra and porn…now, hmmm, maybe he’ll swing a different way…?
His “arrest” seems to be strangely coincidental with the whole North Korea thing, if you get my drift…
His arrest has also coicided with the disappearance of Ron “Opie Ritchie Cunningham” Howard, the Oscar winning director.
American forces have captured Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party heir, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most wanted former regime official still at large, it has been reported.
A Middle Eastern television channel said Douri, a key force in the country’s devastating insurgency, had been seized in a mountain raid in Saddam’s home province of Salahaddin.
Douri was King of Clubs in the deck of cards of most wanted Iraqis issued to American soldiers after the war.
But he was almost unique in evading capture within the top rungs of the regime deposed by the US-led coalition in 2003.
A US spokesman said the Baghdad command was unable to confirm his capture, but the television reports said he had been handed to US forces and DNA tests would be carried out to confirm his identity.
Abu Mohammed, described as Douri’s representative in Syria, claimed the reports were fabricated, saying Douri was free and “leading the resistance and jihad in Iraq”.
Western intelligence credited Douri, whose the name derives from the neighbouring village to Saddam’s native town, with a continuing important role in the insurgency.
A wizened bureaucrat with red hair, the former vice-chairman of Saddam’s Revolutionary Command Council was not cut out for the underground but he survived for five years on guile and a broad range of connections.
Mowafaq al-Rubaie, Iraq’s National Security adviser, told a Saudi newspaper that Syria was sheltering Douri and accused the 65-year-old of playing a key role connecting former regime officials with al-Qa’eda followers.
As the last recognised leader of the Iraqi Ba’ath Party, he found post-war support in Syria and used his position in Damascus to frustrate attempts by moderates to start negotiations with democratic regimes.
Known since childhood as the Ice Man, his state of health was rumoured to be fragile and several reports had said he died of leukaemia.
But he enjoyed strong tribal support among Sunni Muslim sympathisers as well as Al-Qa’eda sympathisers.
An Iraqi court announced that Tariq Aziz, the urbane Christian Iraqi who was the dictatorship’s voice to the world, would face trial for the persecution of Baghdad merchants in the 1990s.
The announcement of charges for Aziz and six other top officials, including Saddam’s half brother, Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan, dashed hopes in the Vatican that the long-serving foreign minister would be freed on grounds of ill-health.
The trial centres on the execution of 42 merchants rounded up after the first Gulf War and accused of profiteering from Iraq’s isolation. Gen David Petraeus, who directed the “surge” campaign in Iraq was promoted to head America’s two long-running wars and a possible future conflict with Iran.
He is to lead Central Command (Centcom), which includes the Middle East and Afghanistan, after winning praise for engineering a reversal of fortune in Iraq.
Lt Gen Raymond Odierno, who served as deputy commander in Baghdad until February, will take command in Iraq.
(Telegraph)
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Looks like the off spring of a local lady and a randy Brit soilder from the era of GBs colonialism in Iraq.
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:25 pmthats hilarious! Al Douri = Ron Howard
Aunt bea wouldnt have put up with much of his crap though. “Oh Opie! im telling your dad that you’re plotting to blow up the general store” AAANDY!
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:27 pmAwesome!!!!!
Plus, Petraeus gets CENTCOM, and Odierno takes his boots. I like it!!! Good days gentlemen, good days.
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:48 pm@ Kurt(the infidel)
Our guys keep reeling them in!
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:51 pmLMFAO @ Opie!
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:03 pm@deathstar:
I was thinking the same thing.
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:04 pmSaddam had his own version of Carrot Top, eh?
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:13 pmBoy, I’m glad I’m not the only one to mistake Ron Howard for that guy…..they say we all have a double….go figure
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:16 pm@deathstar
Looks like the off spring of a local lady and a randy Brit soilder from the era of GBs colonialism in Iraq.
I missed your comment the first go round. I bet that is
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:21 pmexactly what happened. TFF!
Not aproblem. Ron Howard won’t have a double for very long. This guy has a date with the hangman. Allahu Akbar bitch.
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:24 pmI didnt see your comment at first either.
i seriously think you’re on to something there
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:25 pmdeny his capture
> waterboard
deny his capture
> confirm the intel he gave up
deny his capture
> repeat waterboard
deny his capture
> confirm new intel he gave up
deny his capture
> repeat as necessary
then remove evidence of his existence
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:28 pmLOOKS LIKE THERE WAS AN IRISHMAN IN THE RUGHEAD WOODPILE SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:25 pmBorn 6 June, 1942, as Finlay Duncan MacLachlan, bastard offspring of Sergeant-Major Duncan MacLachlan, 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Palestine, 1941. Finlay was the product of an illicit conjoining between MacLachlan and Faiqa Obama, who was Kenyan, but not negroid in feature.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:33 pmHe was given the name Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri after the Sergeant-Major was killed in action during the post-war Lebanese ‘Green Bottle’ or ‘Skibereen Tank’ Campaign and his mothers uncle Khairallah al-Douri Talfah (who is also the uncle of Saddam Hussein)took him in and raised him as his own.
Izzat is a familiar hypocoristic moniker in the Islamic tradition meaning “Dude”.
Born 6 June, 1942, as Finlay Duncan MacLachlan, bastard offspring of Sergeant-Major Duncan MacLachlan, 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Palestine, 1941. Finlay was the product of an illicit conjoining between MacLachlan and Faiqa Obama, who was Kenyan, but not negroid in feature.
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:34 pmHe was given the name Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri after the Sergeant-Major was killed in action during the post-war Lebanese ‘Green Bottle’ or ‘Skibereen Tank’ Campaign and his mothers uncle Khairallah al-Douri Talfah (who is also the uncle of Saddam Hussein) took him in and raised him as his own.
Izzat is a familiar hypocoristic moniker in the Islamic tradition meaning “Dude”.
I may possibly have had too many stiff shots of Old Turkey…
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Denghis WOW 
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:39 pmWild Turkey is the drink. Great flavor and nice kick.
If a man turns his nose at the bird, you know he is a pussy.
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Steve in NC…
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:11 pmI remember my dear old dad telling my mother, “Give him some of this…maybe it’ll shut him the fuck up.”