When the Kurds rebelled again in 1991, al-Douri warned them "If you have forgotten Halabja, I would like to remind you that we are ready to repeat the operation | |
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This form of patronage would eventfully culminate in the rise of the during the Iraqi insurgency, of which al-Douri would play a leading role |
memo published by , Abdullah al-Kharbit, a contractor from a prominent Anbar family claims that a man named Abu Mu'ath, which possibly was a pseudonym for al-Douri was in the Iraqi town of.
4The first visual evidence of his survival surfaced on 7 April 2012 when a video posted online showed him giving a speech | ' The deployment of these militias happened after he was reported killed on Apr |
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" In 1993, al-Douri was involved in the state-sponsored al-Hamlah al-Imaniyyah , which sought to encourage devotion to Islam in Iraqi social life | During the , he was involved in the suppression of the revolt led by the Iraqi marsh Arabs |