| On 5 January 2013, a 53-minute video was released on in which al-Douri encouraged recent in and Governorates against Prime Minister , saying that "the people of Iraq and all its nationalist and Islamic forces support you until the realization of your just demands for the fall of the Safavid-Persian alliance | 25 May 2015 [Date mismatch] at the |
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| " On 5 March 2003, during an emergency summit of the then , al-Douri made a heated address where he accused the neighbouring Gulf states of being "traitors" for cooperating with the United States and Israel | Iraqi tribal expert and senior fellow at the , , claimed that al-Douri is likely in hiding somewhere between Mosul and the Turkish border |
al-Salhy, Suadad 18 April 2013.
25| " In July 2014, al-Douri issued an audio recording praising "the heroes and knights of al Qaeda and the Islamic State" forces in attacking Iraqi government positions within , , , and Governorates | In early 2007, Iraqi President claimed that al-Douri was not in Syria, but that he was in , he says that the Iraqi government has had this information for a while and has been tracing al-Douri's movements |
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| According to the , Shiite militias claimed to have killed him, but the Iraqi Baath party denied his death | Dettmer, Jamie 17 April 2015 |
Prime Minister Maliki's personal adviser, Ali al-Moussawi, said the tape had a propaganda function but that he doubted al-Douri was still in Iraq as he required extensive medical care for a number of illnesses.
7| , , 3 January 2007 | 3 May 2014 [Date mismatch] at the |
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| He added: "If it [U | Al-Baath Party issued a statement following his death, which read: "Today, the knight of the Baath and the Iraqi national resistance has dismounted from his horse" |
An official pronounced recognition of the armed and unarmed national resistance, including all its factions and political parties, as the sole legitimate representative of the people of Iraq• The reported that al-Douri was still "politically active within Iraq.
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