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Has been dead many times and brought back to life. saddam hussein s former right-hand man, reports he was killed, but also photographic and video evidence we ve been looking at that do show what appear to be the body of an elderly man with a beard that is clearly dyed red and does appear to resemble the former baathist official who famously called a kuwaiti official, before the u.s. invasion of iraq, a monkey, and a puppet of the u.s. at an arab summit. what is striking about this, if, in fact, he was killed, it highlights the fact that a man who was dubbed the king of clubs in the u.s. military s deck of cards of most wanted, iraqi outlaws, a man who had a $10 million u.s. bounty on his head, succeeded in surviving in iraq, which has been a very turbulent ....
Symbolic in any way. it s not been declared, you know, part of the caliphate on one hand or central to the future of iraq. reporter: the u.s. is dedicating more resources to the fight over the strategic town of baiji, home to iraq s largest oil refinery and key to denying isis income. just a day earlier, isis released video of insurgent clashes in baiji. if t the iraq government has yet to show claims today its forces took full krog of tcontrol of t back and forth. you will see instances they move into retreat and elsewhere on the offense in isil, the ones in caravans, heading out. reporter: today the iraqi government announced its forces killed former baathist leader ezzat ibrahim al douri seen here in a military parade in 2003. the deputy of saddam hussein later linked to isis. ....
Control of the area. there will be back and forth. you will see instances where they move into retreat but elsewhere in iraq you see them on the offense and eisele, theice isil heading out in caravans. reporter: today the iraqi government announced its forces killed former baathist leader about ibrahim, he was later linked to isis. the king of clubs in the deck of cards of the u.s. most wanted members of the iraqi regime before the fall of saddam hussein. now, in the last 48 hours, the u.s.-led coalition launched five attacks near the baiji oil refinery and only two near the city of ramadi. you see where their priorities are. tonight senator john mccain blasted general dempsey for disregarding ramadi s strategic importance calling it an insult to the families of americans killed in previous war in iraq ....
Right-hand man. he was very feared. as he was leading this group, it was never quite clear what his role was. he was more of a spiritual leader rather than operationally on the ground all the time. so it s not clear what will happen next if there is somebody who could replace him in the baathist circles. it s also not clear who he was allied with at this point. once upon a time it may have been isis but as recently as last week there were reports of an audio message from him calling for strikes against isis. so again, shifting world of allegiances across syria and iraq. isis is trying to reestablish reestablish. thank you for your fine reporting on this. still to come new allegations that iran is ramping up cyberattacks on the west even during those u.s. led nuclear talks. we re going to speak with one of the authors of that report. ....
Who is losing. where do you see winners and losers in this? the alliance between the baathist insurgent groups and isis was bound to fray because in the end they have different goals. isis wants a caliphate with baghdadi at the head and baathist wanted iraq back for themselves and they were using the jihadists as their tool to make that happen. now that this alliance is fraying, you re going to see infighting and perhaps you re going to see capabilities of isis decline somewhat. they are still a very lethal group and you ll see these various groups in various areas fighting perhaps on their own without overarching coordination from syria. when you talk about sort of the jihadists and there s ....