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Jul 01, 1942 Iraq 81 years old
Iraqi politician
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About Izzat Ibrahim Al Douri
- Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (Arabic: ??? ??????? ??????? ‘Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri; born 1 July 1942) is a Iraqi politician and former Army Field Marshal.
- He served as Vice Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council until the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and was regarded as the closest advisor and deputy under former President Saddam Hussein.
- He leads the Iraqi insurgent Naqshbandi Army.Al-Douri is the most high-profile Ba'athist official to successfully evade capture after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and was the king of clubs in the infamous most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.
- Al-Douri continued to lead elements of the Iraqi insurgency such as the Naqshbandi Army against the then-occupation forces and waged an insurgency against the current regime in Baghdad.
- Following the execution of Saddam Hussein on 30 December 2006, al-Douri was confirmed as the new leader of the banned Iraqi Ba'ath Party on 3 January 2007.
- Al-Douri was reportedly killed in action—along with his nine bodyguards—on 17 April 2015 in a large-scale military operation by Shiite militias and Iraqi forces near the Al-Alaas oil fields in Hemreen east of Tikrit.
- The Shiite militant organization Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq has alleged to have killed him and transported his apparent body to Baghdad to confirm its identity.
- According to the BBC, Shiite militias claimed to have killed him, but the Iraqi Baath party denied his death.
- A Kurdish news source also reported that Iraq did not have al-Douri's DNA to confirm his death.
- Al-Douri has since appeared in videos talking about events that have taken place after his alleged death.
