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Iraqi Baath Party announces death of top adviser to Saddam Hussein

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri escaped the 2003 US invasion and led the Naqshbandi Army's insurgency against Baghdad.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - UNDATED:  (FILE PHOTO)  Former former Baath official and deputy to deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (C) is shown in this 1999 photograph in Baghdad, Iraq.  Arab television network Al Jazeera played an audio tape March 27, 2006 purportedly from al-Douri, in which he urges Arab leaders to boycott Iraq's government and recognizes the resistance.  (Photo by Salah Malkawi/Getty Images)

The remnants of Iraq's Baath Party announced the death of a former top adviser to Saddam Hussein, Field Marshall Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, on Monday.

“Today he dismounted his horse, the knight of the Baath and the Iraqi national resistance,” a website affiliated with the outlawed party declared.

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