Saddam's No. 2 Seeks Help for Insurgency - AP

[Lone_Star_Dem]

By MARIAM FAM, Associated Press Writer 15 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq -
Saddam Hussein's chief deputy, who has eluded capture since the U.S.-led invasion of
Iraq three years ago, purportedly called for Arab leaders to back Iraq's Sunni-backed insurgency, in an audiotape broadcast Monday.

The tape, which Al-Jazeera television said was made by Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, appeared to be an address to the Arab League summit in Khartoum, Sudan, this week.

The voice on the tape said Iraq's Sunni-led insurgency was "the sole legitimate representative of the Iraqi people." It was impossible to determine the tape's authenticity.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060327/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_saddam_s_deputy;_ylt=AoXN1F9OJ6Kmo.OY.drFTOus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

It's impossible to determine the tapes authenticity... Did he happen to use the word "nucular" by any chance?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. It's worth mentioning that he's supposed to be dead

Saddam's No 2 dies of cancer

zzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the last senior member of Saddam Hussein’s regime still at large, died today, according to a statement released by the ousted Baath Party. If confirmed, his death could represent a big blow to the insurgency.

Al-Douri was sixth on the list of America’s most wanted Iraqis with a $10 million reward for his capture. He was the Ace of Clubs on the US military's deck of most-wanted Iraqis.

After more than two and half years on the run, during which he is believed to have helped organise (sic) the insurgency against US forces, the veteran Baathist leader succumbed to a long battle against leukemia.

"The leader of the resistance died on Friday November 11 at 2:20 am," said a statement signed by the Baath command and released to a Western news agency in Baghdad.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1868426,00.html

I'm beginning to think the US pharmaceutical companies were behind the war. They're after the formula they use over there to keep resurrecting the dead.

[lapfog_1]

2. Ahh... the new slogan for the war on terror...

Iraq and Afghanistan... now making more "number twos" than a romper room full of babies on diluted prune juice!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. That's funny

Good one! :thumbsup:

[IndianaGreen]

4. Rising from the dead is a Middle Eastern tradition

Iraq is getting to be more dangerous than Vietnam.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

6. It's so handy when you don't even have to show their face

You can kill them off when you want to reflect that you're gaining ground. And then you can easily restored them to health from fatal illness, dismemberment, failing organs and, yes, even actual death with one unverified tape of a person claiming to be them.

[Doctor_J]

8. That was his stunt double

either that, or another zzat Ibrahim al-Douri. That's a very common name is Iraq.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Purported Saddam aide sends message (Al-Jazeera)

Purported Saddam aide sends message

Monday 27 March 2006, 17:01 Makka Time, 14:01 GMT

A taped message purported to be from Saddam Hussein's former deputy calls on Arab leaders to support the Iraqi "resistance" and boycott the government.

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, in an audio tape aired by Aljazeera on Monday, urged an Arab summit taking place in Sudan this week to recognise the "Iraqi resistance as the sole legitimate representative of the Iraqi people" and to "boycott the regime of agents and traitors".

"You should take the necessary decisions to support the Iraqi people and their brave national resistance and its jihad until Iraq is freed," the speaker added.

Al-Douri has been accused of having a major role in many of the bloody attacks carried out by Sunni militias.

But the speaker on the tape condemned attacks on mosques, Shia holy sites and churches in Iraq.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DF33C9E8-0215-4CC1-B5FD-38DDE89CEBA5.htm

[54anickel]

7. And the Arab League is expected to agree and jump in because they

had such good relations with Saddam and friends in the past - right? Just wtf was the purpose behind this one, and does everyone have a bunch of number twos beneath them?