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Belmont Club: Izzat Ibrahim pledged allegiance to Zarqawi
More interesting stuff from Belmont (secondary source unfamiliar to me, salt to taste):[T]he most senior of Saddamâs holdouts, Izzat Ibrahim, has pledged allegiance to Abu Musab al Zarqawi. If true, this may suggest that Iran has also swept up the masterless ronin of the former dictator and enlisted them under new management: in short, Iran may now own the Baâathist remnants. "It added that, at the sight of Zarqawi, Izzat Ibrahim shouted: âYou are the commander and we are your soldiersâ. His son Ahmad handed him a copy of the Quran. His father took it, placed his hand and the hands of his sons on it, and they made an oath to God, pledging allegiance to Zarqawi in the Jihad until victory or martyrdom, in good and bad timesâ. In the end, the network stated that, âthe meeting was brief. Izzatâs sons were placed with the Mujahideen, and the father was placed in the ranks of Zarqawi and other Mujahideen leaders. That day witnessed distribution of hundreds of automatic weapons and large quantities of ammunition on the Mujahideenâ. Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri was vice-president of Iraq and deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council before the war in Iraq in 2003. Currently one of the most wanted men in Iraq (the king of clubs in the USâs deck of cards), he is believed to be a leading figure behind the resistance attacks against US-led forces and has a $10mn bounty on his head, for his arrest or information leading to his capture." Posted by: Sludj 2004-06-16 |
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