Dan Murphy, CSM: Most senior Baathist general to evade US in Iraq reported killed. Does it matter?
Douri was the King of Clubs in the playing cards that the US distributed as its most-wanted list after invading Iraq and had linked up with the Islamic State.
Gen. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most senior member of the Baath Party leadership to escape following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, was killed today north of Baghdad, according to the governor of Salahuddin Province.
Douri's name was one to conjure with before the US invasion - he was one of the organizers of the massacres in the Shiite south and the Kurdish north that followed Iraq's defeat in Kuwait in 1991 - and since. The former Iraqi vice president and head of Saddam Hussein's Revolutionary Command Council was a key figure in bringing former Iraqi army officers and soldiers into the burgeoning Sunni Arab insurgency in the early years of the US occupation.
Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 17, 2015
He Served Saddam. He Served ISIS. Now Al Douri May Be Dead. -- Jamie Dettmer, Daily Beast
It’s had some military success, but the Islamic State is no existential threat -- Rosa Brooks, Washington Post
How ISIS Plans to Destroy Israel -- Bridget Johnson, PJ Media
‘Isis’ Removed From UN List of Hurricane Names -- Tessa Berenson, Time
Empty out Boston; starve Moscow, and you may understand some of Syria's hell -- CNN
Is Iran Overstretched in Syria? -- Randa Slim, Foreign Policy
Iran-U.S. differences over nuclear deal widen -- Oren Dorell, USA TODAY
In Israel’s army, more officers are now religious. What that means. - Christa Case Bryant, CSM
Slowing economy won’t alter Xi’s ‘China Dream’ -- John Lloyd, Reuters
Whatever happened to Obama’s pivot to Asia? -- Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
America's China Consensus Unravels -- Hugh White, Real Clear World/Lowy Institute
Violence Monitor: Xenophobic Attacks Stem From Frustration -- Emilie Iob, VOA
Sudan's Pointless Election -- Justin Willis, Real Clear World
Russia's Economy Steps Back from the Brink -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
In a New Bipolar Energy Order, America Must Assert Itself in the Arctic -- Vicente López-Ibor Mayor, Atlantic Council
Hacker challenge helps NSA develop future cyberwarriors -- Sara Sorcher, CSM
Global Economy Loses Its (Ball) Bearings -- Mark Gilbert, Bloomberg
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Looks like Peter O'Toole with a bottle brush mustache and a hair cut.
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