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TIKRIT, Iraq - U.S. troops arrested the wife and daughter of leading Iraqi fugitive Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who is suspected of masterminding some of the attacks against coalition forces, a U.S. official said Wednesday. Al-Douri's wife and daughter, whose names were not immediately available, were apprehended Tuesday during a raid in Samarra, 70 miles north of Baghdad, according to Lt. Col. William MacDonald, spokesman of the 4th Infantry Division. A man identified as the son of a physician was also taken into custody, he said. Al-Douri, No. 6 on the list of the 55 Most Wanted regime figures, has been...

The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq Nov. 26 — U.S. troops arrested the wife and daughter of a top Saddam Hussein deputy suspected of masterminding attacks on U.S. troops, and a major pipeline linking northern Iraqi oilfields to the country's biggest refinery was ablaze Wednesday. Hours after large explosions shook the center of Baghdad near U.S. headquarters, the visiting British foreign secretary said Iraq will be a safer place once the U.S.- and British-led coalition hands over power to an Iraqi government. Troops of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division in Samarra, 70 miles north of Baghdad, arrested the wife and daughter...

Coalition Puts $10 Million Bounty on Former Regime Official By John D. BanusiewiczAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2003 – A key member of Saddam Hussein's deposed regime now has a $10 million price on his head, Coalition Provisional Authority officials said at a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, today. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, former vice president of Saddam's revolutionary council and No. 6 on the coalition's most-wanted list, is believed to be behind some recent attacks against coalition forces and Iraqis, said senior coalition spokesman Dan Senor. In the Defense Department's 55-card deck depicting wanted former regime officials,...

AMERICAN and British intelligence are in secret negotiations to seize Saddam Hussein’s right-hand man. General Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam’s former deputy, is believed to be at the pinnacle of a pyramid of terrorists, mercenaries and supporters of the old regime waging war on allied forces in Iraq. Exclusive interviews with Paul Bremer, who runs the US-led coalition provisional authority, Dr David Kay, head of the Iraqi survey group that is searching for Saddam’s weapons, and senior military and intelligence officers in Iraq have revealed that the Americans have stepped up their efforts to seize al-Douri and stem the flow of...

Saddam 'not organising' Iraqi anti-US resistance By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad 04 November 2003 A senior Iraqi official said yesterday there was no truth in claims by the Pentagon that Saddam Hussein and Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, one of his aides, were orchestrating anti-US resistance in Iraq. In an interview with The Independent, the official - a veteran opposition leader to the former Iraqi regime now working for the Governing Council, who did not want his name published - believed the organisers of the resistance came from "the middle levels of the Baath party". He said: "Saddam Hussein is not able...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A former Iraqi general, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, is reported to be coordinating attacks in Iraq by foreign fighters and Iraqi regime loyalists, a US defense official said. "There are reports that the al-Douri is coordinating the attacks," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The reports in military channels fingering al-Douri as the coordinator of the attacks probably came from the recent capture in Mosul of a former secretary of al-Douri and two senior members of Ansar al-Islam who were close to the general, the official said. Number six on the US list of 55...

A SENIOR member of Saddam Hussein's ousted government is believed to be helping coordinate attacks on American forces with members of a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda, a senior defence official said. Two captured members of Ansar al-Islam have said Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri is helping to coordinate their attacks, the official said today. That information is the first solid evidence of links between remnants of Saddam's regime and the non-Iraqi fighters responsible for at least some of the attacks on US forces and their Iraqi allies, the official said. Pentagon officials say Ansar al-Islam, which operated in northern Iraq before...

Ba'ath official held as soldiers die Oct 2 2003 American soldiers have arrested a suspected former Ba'ath Party official in northern Iraq, as three American soldiers were killed in separate attacks. A soldier from the 1st Armoured Division was shot and killed while on patrol in the al-Mansour district of western Baghdad, the US command said. A female soldier from the 4th Infantry Division also died when a roadside bomb exploded about 300 yards from the main US base in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown. Two other soldiers were wounded in the blast. Another soldier from the 4th Infantry Division died...

<p>MOSUL, Iraq (AP) U.S. forces have detained an aide to one of Saddam Hussein's most trusted advisers who is high on America's most-wanted list of Iraqis, a U.S. commander in northern Iraq announced Thursday. The U.S. military also issued a televised plea for the former Iraqi defense minister to surrender.</p>

(EX-Iraqi ambassador Mohammed) Al-Douri was the first senior Iraqi official to acknowledge that the war was lost after U.S. troops overran Baghdad on April 9. He has not returned to Baghdad, contrary to orders issued to all Iraqi ambassadors last month, and is believed to be in the United Arab Emirates. The BBC said the interview took place in the Gulf. Asked if Saddam's regime deserved to be toppled, al-Douri said: "Not by you, but by the Iraqi people." Former Iraqi Ambassador Says Saddam Deserved Defeat, AP. Gee, BBC and Mr. al-Douri, why didn't we think of that? We could...

<p>May 12, 2003 -- The men staffing the Iraqi Mission in Manhattan are working without a plan - or a leader - and there's no one to call for instructions even if the phones are working in Baghdad.</p> <p>Since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime and the sudden departure of Ambassador Mohammed al Douri from the East 79th Street offices, the suited men in the four-story building are sitting around waiting to serve the people of Iraq.</p>

'King of clubs' being sheltered by Syrian army By Damien Mcelroy in Damascus (Filed: 11/05/2003) The king of clubs from America's card deck of most wanted Iraqis is being sheltered at a military base in the Syrian capital Damascus, according to a Gulf diplomat. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a former vice-president of Iraq and one of Saddam Hussein's closest henchmen, is said to be under the protection of Syria's Republican Guard in the decrepit military base near the airport. He is among thousands of regime figures who are believed to have slipped into Syria before Damascus sealed the border. Izzat had...

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) - U.S. soldiers raided a dozen buildings in Saddam Hussein's hometown Friday, killing one Iraqi and detaining about 20. U.S. officials also announced the capture in Baghdad of one of Saddam's most trusted aides. The aide, Mizban Khadr Hadi, was a member of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council and had been an adviser to Saddam since the early 1980s. Captured Thursday, Hadi was ranked No. 41 on the U.S. most-wanted list of 55 regime leaders. Even with President Bush declaring an end to "major combat operations," the raid in Tikrit was the latest of many signs that daunting...

DOHA, Qatar - Mohammed al-Douri, who as Iraq's U.N. ambassador vigorously defended Saddam Hussein's regime until he acknowledged its fall, said in an interview Thursday that Iraq should now have a democratic government. "The situation in the region has changed. Democracy is the way to go," al-Douri said in an live interview with Dubai-based al-Arabiya television. Before any new government can be set up or win support of the people, however, the former envoy to the United Nations said U.S. forces would first have to leave Iraq. "This should not be done while the occupation forces are still there, otherwise...

Syria offers to expel 8 members of Saddam's inner circle in a message reaching Washington through 'Russian intelligence channels.'They are: Former Vice President Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri, Saddams' bureau chief Abd Hamoud, Baath Party Boss Aziz Salah, Special Security Service Chief Hanni Tefalah, Republican Guard Secretary Kemal Mustafa, Republican Guard Commander Seif A-Din Suleih, Iraqi Intelligence Commander Taher Jaloul and Special Republican Guard Commander, General Barzan Suleiman Tikriti.This is Damascus's first admission to harboring Saddam Hussein's top aides.

Mohammed Al-Douri is going home. Iraq’s Ambassador to the United Nations left on April 11. After planned stops in Paris and Damascus, he says, “I will be the first to enter my country as a free country.” Before heading out for what may be the final time, Al-Douri spoke to reporters. When he finished, he walked over to thank Richard Roth, CNN’s long-time United Nations reporter. The men exchanged kisses on the cheek. Roth’s buss came at an especially bad time -- just hours after a controversial op-ed by Eason Jordan ran in The New York Times. Jordan, CNN’s chief...

Yemen gives asylum to Iraqi envoy to Arab League SANAA, April 13 (Reuters) - Yemen has agreed to give asylum to Iraq's representative to the Arab League,who asked to be allowed to live in the country after the fall of the Iraqi government, a Yemeni official said on Sunday. Mohsen Khalil Ibrahim, who was also Iraq's ambassador to Egypt, was expected to arrive in Yemen soon, the government official told Reuters. "Yemen will host him at his request," the official said. Yemen was the site of the largest peaceful protests in the Middle East against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq....

<p>UNITED NATIONS  — Iraqi Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri, in his last day at the United Nations, said he could no longer work in the United States while it was "destroying, ravaging and killing" his countrymen.</p> <p>"I don't think there is a possibility for me to work as I want from a country that is militarily invading Iraq," Al-Douri said in an interview with the Dubai-based Al Arabiya satellite channel.</p>

UNITED NATIONS -- Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri, the first Iraqi official to concede defeat in the war, said he is leaving his post because he doesn't want to work under a U.S.-backed transitional government. "I am leaving because I don't think there is a possibility for me to work as I want from a country that is militarily invading Iraq, destroying, ravaging and killing," Al-Douri told the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite channel in an interviews broadcast Friday. Al-Douri said pressure from the U.S. would stop him from working "with full freedom" at the U.N. He did not say what kind...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iraq's U.N. ambassador, Mohammed Aldouri, is expected to leave New York for Paris late on Friday and probably go on to the Syrian capital of Damascus en route home, Arab sources say. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity on Thursday, said Aldouri had made plans for the trip, but there was a chance he could change his mind. The ambassador, himself, told Reuters earlier on Thursday he had not completed his travel plans. "When I feel that everything is ready I will go. It's not easy to prepare yourself to leave," he said.