Great job in finding that Australian report.
"They are baseless. There are search operations by the national guards troops and multinational troops going on during which some terrorist positions were shelled. There were rumors that Izzat al-Douri or someone who resembles him were in that position but we don't have any information on Izzat specifically," he said.
U.S. military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said al-Douri — who was Saddam's right-hand man before the regime fell — was not in U.S. custody and that they were waiting to hear more from the Iraqis