Saddam's Ex-Deputy Resurfaces after Reports of His Death

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Saddam's Ex-Deputy Resurfaces after Reports of His Death

 

He says no former Baath army officers are in IS ranks 

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Basnews English

15/05/2017 - 19:24

Iraq

 

 

 

ERBIL— Former Iraqi president Saadam Hussein's deputy, Izzat al-Douri reemerged once again in the Arab media though his death has been reported several times so far.

The Tunisian Share' Magharibi published on Monday a detailed interview with the former top official in the Iraqi Baath regime who now proclaims himself as the secretary general of the dissolved Baath party of Iraq.

The paper refuses to disclose the circumstances in which the interview with the "thin faced and frail-bodied" Douri has been conducted for "the safety of the guest and the source."

Douri was quoted in the report as saying the Islamic State (IS) does not include former Baath army officers, as many intelligence reports suggest.

In this interview he focuses more on the Arab national ideology and Syria, saying sectarianism in Syria is not new.

He adds sectarianism in Syria began "after the late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad gave up Arabism," in reference to Assad's coup and moves against the leaders of Baath party.

He was especially critical of Hafez Assad and his son, Bashar al-Assad, for siding with Iran.

It was in April 2015 that the top senior commanders from the Iraqi Shi'ite militias published the photo of a dead body which they claimed belonged to Douri whom they killed in Hamrin Mount.

 

http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/350605

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Saddam's VP: Iraq’s government 'puppet in hands of Khamenei'

May 16 2017 10:24 PM

Iraq’s former Vice President under Saddam Hussein, Izzat al-Douri,

 

 

Ba’ath Party officials are not fighting alongside ISIS in Iraq, the country’s former Vice President under Saddam Hussein, Izzat al-Douri, told Acharaa al-Magharebi on Tuesday.
 

In an interview to the Tunisian paper, al-Douri said that "saying the members of Daesh (ISIS) are officers from the Iraqi army is unacceptable because it is intended as an insult primarily to the Ba’ath Party and then the great Iraqi Army and the national regime."
 

“Besides, everyone knows that when the Iraqi National Army was under the leadership of the national regime, there was no terrorism, neither Daesh (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda nor the Safavid (Iranian) terrorist militias.”
 

"We will not accept, and we strongly reject, those who say that the Iraqi National Army is the army of the martyr Saddam Hussein. Our army is known to the Iraqis, to the Arab nation, and to its children, as the army of Iraq and the ummah (nation). This is clear from its actions, starting from the first day of its establishment until the day of the decision by the criminal Bremer, the representative of the invaders, to dissolve it. " al-Douri stressed.
 

Regarding Syria, al-Douri said: “The stirring up of sectarianism in Syria started the day that Hafez Al-Assad renounced the doctrine of Arabism and its ideology, principles and objectives of unity, freedom and socialism."
 

He said that, "after fighting against Iraq alongside Iran, the Syrian regime had exterminated the “great Syrian National Army by killing its patriotic and national officers and putting them in prison.”
 

"And in the end, the Syrian regime handed over Syria’s land and people to the Persians. The real rulers today in Syria are Qasem Soleimani and Hassan Nasrallah, and Putin and Russia recently joined them, while Bashar al-Assad remains in his position without any power."
 

Al-Douri stressed that if it were not for the presence of Iran, al-Assad and his faction would have been defeated within months of the start of the revolution.
 

He said that he believes and is confident “that victory will come to the Arab Syrian people and its national, Arabist and Islamic resistance because history is evidence for that. Victory will always come to those nations that fight for their freedom, liberation and independence.”

 

http://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/story/10656/Saddam-s-VP-Iraq-s-government-puppet-in-hands-of-Khamenei

[10 YEARS LATER]

Okay . . . So this guy has a habit of rising from the Dead, to show everyone he can really do it ! Big show off.

 

whats next for this guy? 

[ChuckFinley]

Bounty Hunter International man hunt, winner takes all.  

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i remember this a hole