Drawing Dead (?): King of Clubs

He's supposedly died from unspecified causes. But consider the source:

One of Saddam Hussein's closest aides, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has died, Iraq's former ruling Baath party says.

"The leader of the resistance... died on 11 November, at 0220 [Thursday 2320 GMT]," the statement said. There is no independent confirmation.

Mr Douri, 63, was the most senior figure in the former regime still at large. The US had offered a $10m reward for information leading to his capture.

In recent years he was accused of financing insurgent groups in Iraq.

It's quite possible he simply wished to retire from the fight, being too sick to continue, or worrying that we were getting to close to him, and so the Baathists are claiming he's dead.

We'll need to see the body, which of course will not be provided to us, unless it was important to him to, say, be buried with his family.

posted by Ace at 02:50 PM

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