Now that’s odd.
When I flipped on my computer this morning, CNN was running a breaking news alert that Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri had been captured. al-Duri was not only one of Saddam’s top deputies. He has also allegedly been a key organizer of the post-war resistance.
Now, twenty minutes later, no follow-up story, no alert, no nothing.
Looking at the other news sites, it seems that Kirkuk is rife with rumors that al-Duri was captured in a raid last night and that one member of the IGC, Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, made a vague statement seeming to imply that he had “There was a major action against a highly suspicious objective last night in Kirkuk and it is very possible that Izzat Ibrahim has been captured or killed.”
Did CNN jump the gun? Presumably we’ll know more later this morning.
