Saddam's No 2 calls for Arab leaders support
27/03/2006 - 11:13:11Saddam Hussein’s chief deputy, who has eluded capture since the US-led invasion of Iraq three years ago, purportedly called for Arab leaders to back Iraq’s Sunni-backed insurgency, in an audiotape broadcast today.
The tape, which Al-Jazeera television said was made by Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, appeared to be an address to the Arab League summit in Khartoum, Sudan, this week.
The voice on the tape said Iraq’s Sunni-led insurgency was “the sole legitimate representative of the Iraqi people”.
Al-Douri was sixth on the US deck of cards that enumerated the most-wanted members of Saddam’s regime. He had been Revolutionary Command Council vice chairman and a long-time Saddam confidant.
It was impossible to determine the tape’s authenticity.
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