Al-Baath Party issued a statement following his death, which read: "Today, the knight of the Baath and the Iraqi national resistance has dismounted from his horse" | President "will never attack Iran until the Resurrection Day |
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He said: "We consider everything that is happening in Iraq from Iran, its agents, militias, and its security apparatus, is the responsibility of the United States" | Reinstating the army and the national security forces in service in accordance with their preoccupation laws and regulations, and compensating all who were adversely affected by dissolving them• and Iraqi officials that al-Douri was residing in Syria, al-Douri had opposed and even attempted to oust the Syrian-backed Iraqi Ba'athist, , from the party and he had also criticized the Syrian government for being part of an American conspiracy to undermine the Iraqi Ba'ath Party |
During the , he was involved in the suppression of the revolt led by the Iraqi marsh Arabs.
23Al-Douri became the vice chairman of the prior to 2003, giving him unprecedented amounts of power and influence within the Iraqi political sphere | Al-Iraqi had been a Colonel in Iraq's Air Defense Intelligence |
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forces, directing and funding attacks, as well as brokering an alliance between Ba'athist insurgents and militant Islamists |
The Shi'ite militant organization claimed to have killed him, saying that his body was being transported to Baghdad to confirm its identity.
25On 24 April 2015, the Iraqi Health Ministry spokesman, Dr | Try or get the SensagentBox With a , visitors to your site can access reliable information on over 5 million pages provided by Sensagent |
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Other reports still maintained that there was a limited degree of cooperation between the two groups | On 13 June, a Twitter account, wikibaghdadi, claimed a "Meeting between ISIS and Naqshbandi Army near al-Qayara area south of Mosul had taken place with representatives from Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri and |
Nicknamed "the Iceman" for his humble origins selling blocks of ice, he became involved in revolutionary politics in his late teenage years, despite having had only a primary school education.
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