US offers $10 mln reward for Saddam lieutenant

Reuters ^ | 11/19/03

[areafiftyone]

BAGHDAD, Nov 19 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Wednesday offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the capture or killing of Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, the most wanted man in Iraq after deposed dictator Saddam Hussein.

Ibrahim, one of Saddam's top lieutenants before the war and number six on the U.S. military's 55-strong most-wanted list, is accused of being behind several recent attacks on U.S. soldiers.

"This week we will be launching a public information campaign across Iraq to promote the $10 million reward for information leading to his capture or killing," Dan Senor, a spokesman for the U.S.-led civilian authority in Iraq, told a news conference.

It is the third major reward to be offered for information leading to the capture or death of former regime leaders.

The United States paid out $30 million to the man who gave information on the whereabouts of Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay, leading to their deaths in a shootout with U.S. forces in the northern city of Mosul in July.

A $25 million price still stands on the head of Saddam, the largest single reward offered by the United States.

Earlier this week U.S. forces used satellite-guided missiles to destroy one of Ibrahim's homes near Tikrit as they stepped up the hunt for the man who was Saddam's number two in Iraq's former ruling Revolutionary Command Council. >{? Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, a spokesman in Baghdad, has said that U.S. forces are getting closer to catching Ibrahim, who was considered one of the most ruthless enforcers of Saddam's rule and one of the former leader's trusted confidants.

[Coop]

Happy hunting!

[San Jacinto]

I don't see how the same government that offers a Dead or Alive reward on this guy is also threatening to prosecute Col. West for scaring an Iraqi.

I guess whoever kills or captures Izzat better make sure they don't threaten or intimidate him.

[OXENinFLA]

Just a reminder folks.........this is the "I PUT A CURSE UPON YOUR MUSTACHE" guy.

[Lady Jag]

Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri
Vice-chairman Revolutionary Command Council, Northern regional commander

The 61-year-old deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council and deputy chief of the armed forces is considered to have been Saddam Hussein's daily right-hand man. He was born in Tikrit, the Iraqi leader's home town. He was a key commander in the suppression of the failed Shia uprising in 1991. Indict also accuses Mr Ibrahim of the use of excessive military force against the Marsh Arabs of the south. He escaped an assassination attempt in Karbala in 1998. War crimes charges have been issued against him in Austria.

BBC News Wednesday, 8 October, 2003, 16:05 GMT 17:05 UK

[Libertina]

Nice point.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

U.S. authorities on Wednesday offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the capture or killing of Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, the most wanted man in Iraq after deposed dictator Saddam Hussein.

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FYI.

[blackie]

Bounty ~ Bump!

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[John Frum]

I hope they remove him from the gene pool as they did QUSAY and ODAI. His mangled and crushed body would also serve as a warning for the rest of those insurgents as to what they face; public humiliation of having their dead bodies shown in the mass media.

[John Frum]

I hope they remove him from the gene pool as they did QUSAY and ODAI. His mangled and crushed body would also serve as a warning for the rest of those insurgents as to what they face; public humiliation of having their dead bodies shown in the mass media.

[yonif]

bttt

[jokar]

bttt

[Henchman]

Where do I go to turn myself in for the reward? (I'll shave later and say I escaped.)