tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981669.post3541289498291413768..comments2024-03-23T10:55:30.196-05:00Comments on Cold Fusion Guy: King of ♧ killed in battleJim Peethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649414726939918803noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26981669.post-37802406040433261992015-04-20T17:01:55.749-05:002015-04-20T17:01:55.749-05:00Iraq's King of Clubs crossed out:
He was the ...<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/izzat-ibrahim-al-douri-killed-117079.html?hp=r3_3" rel="nofollow">Iraq's King of Clubs crossed out</a>:<br /><br /><i>He was the highest-ranking fugitive — the King of Clubs, or No. 6 — listed on the deck of cards that U.S. commanders issued in 2003 for the most-wanted regime leaders.<br />“He was big because he was the guy who orchestrated the transfer of billions of dollars out of Iraq to Syria for the purpose of bank rolling insurgency activities,” said Paul Hughes, a retired Army colonel who advised the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority that administered Iraq immediately after Hussein was toppled. “There were a lot of reports over the years they got him. I am still waiting to hear that the DNA has been tested before I am ready to believe this guy is dead again. But if they got a guy with a big read beard then it sounds like him. And it appears the age is about right. He is in his early 70s.”<br /><br /><br />“I have been waiting for that [expletive] to die,” he added.<br />It was not immediately clear who killed him, however, though reports out of Baghdad and the nearby Kurdish regions suggested a Shia Militia was responsible.<br />Judith Yaphe, a former CIA Iraq analyst, said the potential suspected groups are several, including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant itself, which she said has appeared to have taken revenge on some former Hussein loyalists who joined the group but then became disaffected.<br />“He probably brought the disgruntled Iraqi army officers into ISIL. Some tried to quit. You do not quit. … It raises in my mind the question who killed him? Maybe [ISIL] killed him,” Yaphe said.<br />According to the news reports, Iraqi officials were transferring to Baghdad a body of someone who closely resembled the light-complected and mustachioed commander for DNA testing.<br />“We are not 100 percent sure that the body belongs to Izat al-Douri,” a security official told NBC News. “The government will do fingerprints and DNA tests in order to be sure that the one who was killed is Izzat al-Douri … We have to double confirm this.”<br /><br /><br /></i>Jim Peethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649414726939918803noreply@blogger.com