Ba’ath party to energise Iraqis to fight US forces

Al-Douri is the ‘King of Clubs’ in the US deck of cards naming the Saddam regime’s most wanted figures—is among several Ba’athist leaders believed to be hiding in Syria, under the protection of the President Bashar As’sad, the Time magazine said.

The magazine said its questions were sent to al-Douri in May through intermediaries and it’s not exactly clear when his answers delivered in Arabic and authenticated by trusted sources were composed.

The fact that they refer in the present tense to the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi suggest they were written before Zarqawi was killed in June. Al-douri also admitted that the regime had blundered in its military strategy at the beginning of the US-led invasion.