UPDATE: Rudaw has now altered its report to remove all mention of suicide bombing. Now it says al-Douri was killed by Iraqi forces.
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The BBC reports that “Al-Douri, 72, led the Naqshbandi Order insurgent group, a key force behind the recent rise of Islamic State (IS).” The Naqshbandi Order is a Sufi group — a salient detail for those of you who believe that the Sufis are peaceful and eschew violent jihad. Al-Douri was also a key leader of the Baath Party, which was nominally secular. Many Western analysts assume that there is a vast gulf between Baathists and Islamic jihadists, but given the nature of Iraqi society, it was inevitable that the Baath Party under Saddam would be filled with people who would have preferred to live under Sharia, and who took the opportunity to pursue that goal once Saddam was gone.
“Saddam’s ex-deputy Douri dies as suicide bomber in Tikrit,” Rudaw, April 17, 2015 (thanks to Tilda):
TIKRIT, Salahaddin Province – Former Saddam Hussein deputy, the man pictured as the King of Clubs in the infamous US deck of cards of most-wanted Iraqis, has died along with eight other suicide bombers, a provincial official has told Rudaw.
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, an ex-general in the Iraqi Army and the successor to Saddam Hussein as leader of the Baath Party, detonated himself on Friday in an attack on Iraqi forces in the liberated city of Tikrit, said Jassim Jabara, head of the Salahaddin province security committee.
Douri, believed to be 72 years old, assisted in the 1968 coup that brought Saddam Hussein to power. He was the most senior Baathist leader to evade capture by US forces, which put a $10 million bounty on his head.
Douri has lived as a fugitive for years but has been rumored to be the mastermind of numerous violent attacks in Iraq.
The death was confirmed by Salahaddin Governor Raed al-Jabouri.

ermin says
Islam is a deadly extremely infectious virus only a very rare mutations have been able to produce an anti bodies , to be a Muslim you need one of two ( or both ) factors
1 – the mentality
2 – the ideology
Many don’t have the ideology but have the mentality however, to be a good human being you must make sure to get rid of both
islam_Is_Islam says
@ermin
David Wood from Acts17Apologetics has a 3-sided explanation of jihad that includes both of the factors that you identify. Check it out here:
tilda says
Rudaw has changed its report — there is now no mention of suicide bombing, and the report says he was killed by Iraqi forces “in a military operation in Alam town near the liberated city of Tikrit.”
Marco Elliott says
Tilda, who cares where or when or how he was killed, so long as he is dead.
I think we can guess where he is now…..and its not the koranic brothel in the sky.
tilda says
I gave Robert the link at a time when the report referred to suicide bombing, and I felt a bit guilty when Rudaw went an changed their whole report after it was posted above. So, I pointed out that Rudaw changed their report, because it was almost inevitable that someone would click on the link and then comment that the Rudaw website didn’t say what it supposedly said. Satisfied?
Mac-101 says
It is very important, since very few suicide bombers are old people, They surely must not believe if you are old and dyin and you DID believe you’d blow yourself up for Allah and git your 72 virgins and a perpetual hard on! Only the dumb and da young appear to believe this stuff!
Don McKellar says
There is only one Islam, and though some sects are more moderate, when it comes right down to it, the Koran is the Koran, and it says what it says. And at any moment, any moslem, no matter their sect, can get serious about their religion and go on murderous jihad as sanctioned by the Koran. As we have seen in countless examples including this higher profile one. There is no getting around that fact, and we ignore that at our peril.
islam_Is_Islam says
@ Don McKellar
Hear, hear. Don’t you think that it is more precise to say some sects are less violent than “some sects are more moderate”?
Don McKellar says
I think “moderate” is a more precise term. For example, that way it includes the varying degrees in which women are suppressed. The most devout slap them into black cloth coffins. While more moderate sects allow them to show their faces and perhaps even get away with a hair covering. But when a woman falls “out of line”, then the moslem man of any sect looks on his koran (and their imam’s advice based on the koran and the hadiths) and beats them like it says they should. http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/003-wife-beating.htm
Violence is the default mode of any sect of Islam.
Robert says
Is this sinister? Do they no longer believe he detonated himself and are being more accurate to their available information? Or are they scrubbing the report of suicide bombing references in order to further the notion that the motivation behind these attacks are socioeconomic? (Kind of hard to argue that when the leaders are detonating themselves. . . )
Don McKellar says
This is a good question. I think this is a sinister scrubbing of information to try and give the Iraqi government forces a “victory”, when really they didn’t accomplish anything. Sort of the ghost of Baghdad Bob.
tilda says
When I read the initial report I wondered whether he might have had cancer, because men like Al-Douri do not become suicide bombers. Men like Al-Douri get others to do the dying.
The way in which Rudaw changed their report is a puzzle. It’s usual for news providers to update rather than scrub reports. However, Rudaw is not a western news source, and they might have a different practice.
I stumbled over a report which included a photo of part of the upper body (mainly face). A bit dirty, a couple of front teeth missing, but nothing which would obviously suggest self-detonation. See this link: http://ekurd.net/saddams-ex-deputy-izzat-ibrahim-al-douri-killed-in-iraq-2015-04-17
I can think of various reasons for the differing reports — some innocent and some not — but they’re all pure speculation. Propaganda is part of war.
Sam Hawkins says
Thanks tilda, nice work.
Carlos Danger says
If the report is true, I’m glad this toerag is dead.
bobm says
terribly; what they fail to understand is that at death; they are pulled into a black hole located at their A$$ ..their spirit body inside out is sucked through and down into the pit of separation from God forever more… oooops!.
JamesonRocks says
Dead? I hope so… I would sure feel better if we had DNA confirmation from a severed head or penis.
duh_swami says
He’s been dead for 72 years…he just got around to making it official…
Joseph says
Too bad Islam don’t make it official also.
Jay Airahs says
How sad, in years he made it up to 72
But, instead of receiving virgins numbering up to 72,
He gets to roast extra-crispy on Satan’s rotisserie and pay his dues.
mortimer says
I like that (‘dead for 72 years’).
Anyone who helped Saddam was morally ‘dead’. They were all commanded to commit atrocities by him that made them all co-criminals.
Baucent says
A lot of those Sadaam era cronies were not very religious, more secular types, drank alcohol etc. I suspect Al Douri was motivated more by his hatred of Shia muslims in general and the fact his tribe had got the short end of the stick after Sadaam fell. In the middle east, for many, tribal loyalty is more important.
laalacey says
keep smileing you jackass, you just could,t wait to get at the 40 vergins,
Mirren10 says
Crikey ! He was a ginger !
Well, thank goodness the shitbag’s dead.