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Saddam's Old Army Heads Insurgency
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| Last Edited | kal Jul 25, 2006 04:59am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The most wanted Iraqi fugitive claimed in an interview published Monday that key elements of Saddam Hussein's old army are now heading the insurgency.
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam's top lieutenant with a $10 million bounty on his head, struck a defiant tone in an intervew appearing on Time magazine's Web site in which he wrote out answers to questions sent in May through intermediaries. Time said it wasn't clear when his answers were written.
Al-Douri, the highest-ranking figure from Saddam's regime still at large and the "king of clubs" on the most wanted list, said Saddam blundered by having his army confront the U.S.-led invasion force instead of holding it in reserve to fight a guerrilla war, but he said the old army has bounced back.
"It is the Iraqi army that today is in charge of the planning and supervision of more than 95 percent of patriotic resistance operations against the occupation," al-Douri said.
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