Reports reaching from Iraqi State TV have confirmed the death of a former top deputy to renown dictator Saddam Hussein, Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri.
According to the Shia Militia commander Hadi Al-Ameri, the Sunni extremist group figure head who has been battling the Iraqi government was killed on Friday, April 17, 2015 in an operation by Iraqi security forces and Shia militia members in the Hamrin Mountains between Tikrit and Kirkuk, Iraq.
The Shia militia is a predominantly Shiite fighting group that worked with Iraqi troops earlier this month to liberate the Iraqi city of Tikrit from ISIS.
The demise of “King Of Clubs” as he is famously called by American soldiers, was also reported by the governor of Salahuddin province, Raid al-Jubouri, who spoke by phone on Iraqi television.
Al-Douri’s body arrived Friday, April 17, 2015 in Iraqi’s Capital, Baghdad, where DNA samples were taken to confirm the identity, said the spokesman of another Shiite militia called Hashd Shaabi in an interview with state-run Iraqiya TV.
