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November 11, 2005

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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I need a new deck, these cards are dead dead dead.

Posted by: Al on November 11, 2005 03:04 PM

He was supposed to be a baddie, too. Bad enough for either Time or Newsweek, I think Time though, to do a puff piece about him right after the war started. They were actually imbedded with him, it seemed. I read the article a year or so ago, pardon the fuzziness of the details.

Posted by: chip on November 13, 2005 01:10 AM

Hmm. If the guy in the back room was worth $10mil., would dead as a doornail be a plus or a minus? What to do? What to do?

Posted by: JM Hanes on November 13, 2005 06:31 AM

For an eerie Ace of Spades scroll down on this link:

http://www.macchuck.com/Katrina/updates/Update49.html

Posted by: max on November 13, 2005 11:58 PM

Jimmy carter and mcheal moore as the jokers

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