- The US-led coalition published a wanted poster for Saddam
Hussein's number two -- Izzat Ibrahim -- and offering a 10-million-dollar
reward for his capture.
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- "Information leading to the capture of Izzat Ibrahim
al-Duri is worth up to 10 million dollars," says the black poster
carrying his photograph saluting in military uniform.
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- The 61-year-old former vice-president of Iraq's once
all-powerful Revolution Command Council and long-time Saddam ally is suspected
of coordinating attacks on coalition forces and masterminding an unholy
alliance between Islamic militants and Baath party loyalists.
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- "Report any information to coalition authorities.
Apprehending former regime members is vital to the safety and security
of Iraq," the poster says, urging people to contact the authorities
by telephone or by e-mail at tips@orha.centcom.mil.
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- A religious conservative regularly filmed worshipping
at Baghdad's main mosques during his years in power, Ibrahim oversaw the
ruling Baath's abandonment of its secular principles in the years after
the 1991 Gulf War in favour of the language of anti-US fundamentalism.
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- A survivor of successive purges, he is the only Iraqi
official still at large to have taken part alongside Saddam in the 1968
coup that brought their Baath party to power.
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- Born, like the ousted strongman, in the Tikrit district
north of the capital, Ibrahim also has tribal connections in the Mosul
region further north through his daughter-in-law's family.
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- Not a military man by training, Ibrahim was nonetheless
given the honorary rank of lieutenant general and made deputy commander
of the armed forces and commander of the northern region.
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- Kurdish officials say he has maintained close ties with
a network of former army officers and loyalist militiamen who have been
carrying out attacks across north-central Iraq.
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- The ousted Iraqi president is also still on the run,
with a 25-million-dollar bounty on his head.
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- Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay were killed in a raid by
US forces in the city of Mosul on July 22. They carried a total reward
of 30 million dollars which was reportedly paid to an informer who was
ghosted out of Iraq for his safety.
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