death penalty. hello, everyone. i m kate bolduan. i m john berman. we have breaking news for you this morning. word that one of the most infamous killers in iraq is dead. iraqi tv is reporting that izzat ibrahim al douri was killed in a military operation near tikrit. al douri was a key aide to saddam hussein. you can see him there. a serious player. the king of clubs in the u.s. military s deck of cards of most wanted iraqis. he was part of the insurgency during the occupation and more recently he had been connected to isis. he could have been a crucial player in helping isis take over huge chunks of iraq. he s the last of saddam hussein s top men to be captured. let s go to london for more on this. iraqis are calling this a huge moment. we re still waiting for dna test results to confirm with 100% certainty that this is izzat ibrahim al douri but a family face to many viewers
of this key saddam hussein aide s death. march there are deck of cards he was the king of clubs. this go to the humiliation of the sufficient anies in iraq under al-maliki. saddam loyalists became supporters of isis. this is a big anywhere this whole story. we ll get details of what happened and how he was taken out. hillary clinton rolls out her campaign this week. let s look back on how it s gone so far. we heard reports staged events. you see a lot of this in politics on both sides of the fence. but there are some we talk about driving people in cars and talking to them for half an
all right. hour two, you re watching cnn. i m brooke baldwin. we are now getting news of a powerful suicide bomb attack by isis targeting the u.s. consulate in erbil, iraq. these pictures showing the immediate aftermath of that attack. meantime, also out of iraq word that one of the world s most wanted terrorists has just been killed. his name is izzadi ibrahim al douri. he s known as the king of clubs. his depiction remember this deck of playing cards? used to identify key figures in saddam hussein s regime. al douri was considered one of the worst. after the regime toppled, al douri went into hiding. today it seems he was found and killed by iraqi security forces. we ve got our senior international correspondent who covered what happened there in iraq for years and years. also joining me cnn military
remember him better as the king of clubs, the most wanted man in the war in iraq took over as the head of the banned baath party replacing saddam hussein, linked directly to isis. let s go to new york. atika shubert has been covering the story for a long time for us. what more can you dell us about the operation that led to this man s death and are there any other major names from the so-called most wanted list still on the loose? nobody really who was the stature of al douri. he was the number six on that list. he was the right-hand man of saddam hussein, the most wanted there. there are other people who are still at large but they re much lower in rank, many of them believed to be perhaps somewhere in syria. may not have anything to do with the ongoing insurgency in iraq. al douri was a particularly well-known figure because of his role in the baathist party. now what we understand about the operation and this is all coming from iraqi sources at the
and we have breaking news. iraqi state tv has announced the death of a key terror leader. atika shubert is here with details. this terror leader was actually in the infamous deck of cards. he was the king of clubs. that s how high up he was in the iraqi government under saddam hussein. what are we learning about his death and importance of it? he was number six in the lineup of saddam hussein s regime. important leader at the time. since then he dropped off the radar but came up again when isis marched across northern iraq. he was a leader of the baathist party so he s not a member of isis per se. he was aligned with them at one point although those allegiances are shifting all the time. what we know about his apparent death is iraqi state tv are reporting that iraqi security