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Alert! There are very strong indications that Eizat Aldori the deputy of Saddam has been arrested near Tikrit! After his arrest by the Iraqi Police and the US forces, 150 members of his guards tried to free him but most of them either killed or escaped. More details later! Congratulations for the victims of Abo-Al-Thaleg!

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Saddam Hussein scoffed at charges of war crimes and mass killings Thursday, making a defiant first public appearance since being hunted down seven months ago. The deposed dictator fixed the judge with a penetrating stare and declared: "This is all a theater by Bush, the criminal." Dressed in a charcoal-colored, pinstriped suit jacket, Saddam - whose day in court was shown on TV in the Arab world and beyond - looked thinner and better groomed than on Dec. 13, the day U.S. troops pulled him from a hole near Tikrit. Unaccompanied by a lawyer, he was...

Foxnews has been reporting all morning that close relatives of Al Ibrahim Al Douri have been arrested in Iraq. We're getting closer to nabbing him! Dean win the South? I don't think so!!!!

   Brig. Gen Mark Kimmitt and Dan SenorCJTF7 and Coalition Provisional Authority Update24 February, 2004 Presenter:  Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, Deputy Director of Operation, CJTF-7,Dan Senor, Senior Advisor to Coalition Provisional Authority MR. SENOR: Good afternoon. I have a few announcements to make and then General Kimmitt has an opening statement, after which we will be happy to take your questions. A few administrative items. Tomorrow at 11:30 and then at noon there will be a roundtable for the press at the Ministry of Health, the Iraqi Ministry of Health, at which Dr. Khudair Abbas, who is the Iraqi...

In Baqouba, Former Fedayeen Security Chief Detained by U.S. Military By Matt Moore / Associated Press Writer FEB. 24, 2004 TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) - A former Baath Party security chief suspected of financing anti-U.S. activities and working with top fugitive Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri was detained by U.S. soldiers, the military reported Tuesday. Khatan al-Anber was apprehended late Monday night during a raid by 4th Infantry Division forces in Baqouba, Maj. Josslyn Aberle said. Al-Anber, the former security chief of Diyala province, is suspected of financing a terrorist cell in the city. Aberle said al-Anber had been providing logistics for al-Douri,...

<p>TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) — U.S. forces on Friday captured six people "closely tied" to Saddam Hussein and his regime for suspected anti-coalition activities including attacks on helicopters, a U.S. commander said.</p> <p>In Fallujah, meanwhile, residents said Friday that two men suspected of having been informants for the Americans were slain by insurgents. The killings, which occurred late Thursday and early Friday, followed warnings in pamphlets circulated in the area west of Baghdad warning Iraqis against cooperating with the occupation force.</p>

U.S. Troops Arrest Relative of Al-DouriBy CHRIS BRUMMITTASSOCIATED PRESS TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) - U.S. troops arrested a relative of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, and believe he may help in the hunt for the most senior former regime figure still at large, a U.S. officer said Wednesday. The man, who was not identified, was arrested late Tuesday in a raid in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, said Lt. Col. Steven Russell, who led the operation. Russell described the suspect as a "close relative" of al-Douri, who was the vice chairman of the Baath Party's Revolutionary Command Council and a longtime confidant of Saddam....

Insurgent financiers held 11/01/2004 17:43 - (SA) Baghdad - US soldiers arrested four men in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday accused of working for the top fugitive in Iraq as rebel paymasters. The four were paying insurgents to attack US troops on behalf of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, one of Saddam Hussein's former chief lieutenants and an apparent financier of the anti-US guerrilla war, said Major Trey Cate, spokesperson for the US Army's 101st Airborne Division. The US-led occupation administration of Iraq has issued a $10m reward for al-Douri, who has taken the spot as the most wanted man...

MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) - A tribal chief with close ties to Saddam Hussein's number two, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, was arrested by US troops in Iraq's main northern city Tuesday, relatives and a member of the Iraqi security force that helped arrest him told AFP. Sheikh Ghazi Hanash, head of the influential Tayy tribe, was detained at his Mosul home along with three of his sons after an exchange of fire which left one of Hanash's bodyguards dead, said Waadallah Tewfik Hassan, a member of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps who participated in the operation. No information on the arrests was...

<p>WASHINGTON — Secret papers found in Saddam Hussein's (search) hiding place reveal that he had regular contact with the leader of the terrorists who oppose the U.S. presence in Iraq, military officials told The Post.</p> <p>The papers prove Saddam communicated with Izzat Ibrahim al Douri (search), his former deputy in the Ba'ath Party - the political organization behind his reign of terror.</p>

<p>The U.S. military found a treasure trove of documents on Saddam Hussein when he was captured -- some of which could prove that he had been commanding and financing guerrilla attacks against the coalition, Fox News has learned.</p> <p>Earlier Tuesday, there were unconfirmed reports that Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (search), No. 6 on the U.S. military's 55 Most Wanted (search) list, had turned himself in. But Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told a morning news program that the report was unfounded.</p>

THE reputed head of the Iraqi insurgency surrendered to US forces at dawn yesterday, Al-Arabiya television reported last night. The reported surrender of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking member of the former regime still at large, follows the arrest at the weekend of two leaders of the insurgency along with Saddam Hussein. Anti-US raids continued last night in Iraq, with two US soldiers severely wounded in an ambush in Hussein's home town of Tikrit. The injured troops, one with head wounds, were rushed on stretchers to a US Army 4th Infantry Division base for treatment. The latest attack on...

US closing in on Saddam man 06/12/2003 17:04 - (SA) Baghdad - US troops acting on a tip about one of the wives of Saddam Hussein's fugitive number two Izzat Ibrahim on Saturday detained the brother of a security guard from Ibrahim's office. The detention was the latest step in a massive country-wide manhunt for Ibrahim, who has a $10m bounty on his head. Troops took away the man, whose name was not immediately available, after they raided a house in southeast Baghdad on Saturday afternoon. "The other brother, who is not here, worked as security in the office that...

Aide to Saddam's number two detained December 3, 2003 - 8:42AM US troops detained the private secretary of Saddam Hussein's fugitive number two, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, during a massive sweep in the Iraqi town of Hawijah today, police chief Awad al-Obeidi told AFP. "Saad Mohammed al-Duri was arrested in a house in the Hawijah area, where he was hiding," Obeidi said in Iraq's northern oil capital by telephone. Kirkuk's police chief, General Turhan Yusef, said $US40,000 ($55,134) was found in the man's possession, which was "suspected of being used to finance attacks on the US-led coalition". The police general said...

Saddam No.2's aide detained From correspondents in Kirkuk, Iraq December 3, 2003 US troops detained the private secretary of Saddam Hussein's fugitive number two, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, during a massive sweep in the Iraqi town of Hawijah today, its police chief Awad al-Obeidi said. "Saad Mohammed al-Douri was arrested in a house in the Hawijah area, where he was hiding," Obeidi said in Iraq's northern oil capital by telephone. Kirkuk's police chief, General Turhan Yusef, said $US40,000 was found in the man's possession, which was suspected of being used to finance attacks on the US-led coalition. Across north-central Iraq, more...

Iraq's King of Clubs Said to Have Evaded U.S. Capture US troops conducted a massive raid near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk today, but denied reports that Saddam Hussein’s right hand man – the King of Clubs in the most wanted list – had been captured. A member of Iraq’s Governing Council said Saddam Hussein’s top former deputy Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri – the most wanted man in Iraq after the deposed dictator – was the target of the raid. But US army spokesman Sergeant Robert Cargie said “We get our information from the 173rd (Airborne Brigade) and the 173rd...

They just quoted the US military. Izzy has not been captured.

KIRKUK, Iraq (AP) -- U.S. troops may have killed or arrested Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam Hussein's top former deputy who is suspected of leading the anti-U.S. insurgency, an Iraqi official said Tuesday. Officials of the U.S.-led coalition in Baghdad said they had no information on the report. Al-Douri, No. 6 on the U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis, may have been arrested or killed in a U.S. raid in Kirkuk in northern Iraq, a senior Kurdish official in Kirkuk said on condition of anonymity. "I heard he might have been killed or captured," the official said, citing sources in his political...

I just saw something on MSNBC that Saddam Hussein's top deputy may have been captured or killed. Here's an older article about the search for him: ============ US launches massive search in northern Iraq for Saddam's deputy KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) - The US military launched a massive search operation around Iraq (news - web sites)'s northern oil centre overnight in its intensifying hunt for Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s deputy, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, a senior police official said. "It's the biggest search operation ever launched around here," the official in Kirkuk told AFP, asking not be identified. "They're searching...

<p>November 27, 2003 -- BAGHDAD, Iraq - American troops hunting for a top Saddam Hussein deputy who's masterminding anti-U.S. attacks arrested his wife and daughter in an apparent attempt to pressure his surrender. Troops of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division in Samarra, 70 miles north of Baghdad, arrested the wife and daughter of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a top Saddam associate, division spokesman Lt. Col. William MacDonald said Wednesday.</p>