Apparently the Coalition is not buying this al-Douri death thing since they are still looking for him.
"Officials believe that al-Duri still has access to funds that he personally transferred to Syria," the US military said. "This money was looted from Iraq during the Saddam Hussein reign and is now being used to recruit and finance numerous insurgent attacks in Iraq."
So, unless there is a black-ops program for ghostbusting we don't know about, this story was likely a fake.
There's an interesting little morsel in the article worth mention:
A trusted aide of Saddam since the very beginnings of his rise to power, Ibrahim was a natural choice for the sensitive mission of leading an underground resistance network.
He was seen as the man who could potentially serve as a link between the Saddam regime and radical Al-Qaeda Islamic fighters.
Seems they are suggesting a Saddam-AQ link before the invasion. We've been told the Islamists would never want to fight with the Ba'athists, no matter what.
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