DNA Tests Prove Izzat al-Douri Dead

(FNA)- DNA tests have proved the death of Izzat al-Douri, former right-hand man to the executed Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, a report said.

"The final results prove that the body belongs to the criminal Izzat al-Douri," the Kataib Hezbollah Group's Spokesman Jaafar Husseini told Reuters, saying his DNA had been tested in special hospitals.

"We are 100 percent certain," he added.

Husseini said the body would be handed over to the government on Monday.

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, former Iraqi general and Vice Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council, was killed in Iraq on Friday.

Secretary-General of the popular Badr Organization Hadi al-Ameri stressed that al-Douri was killed during an Operation by Iraqi popular forces in Salahuddin province in Iraq.

Al-Douri, 73, was a former Iraqi general and a commander of the Army of Saddam Hussein's regime. He was an Iraqi military commander and Vice Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council, until the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.

Following the US invasion, he escaped and remained at large. But after a few months, intelligence reports showed that he was leading rebel operations in the country.

Al-Douri designed and led terrorist, specially the Al-Qaeda, operations in Iraq.

Regional intelligence agencies had chased him down in Western and Northwestern Iraq.

Al-Douri was one of the main officials of Saddam Hussein's chemical arms program and played a major role in the chemical attacks on Iran during the 1980s war as well as the attack on the Northern Iraqi city of Halabche that killed 5,000 civilians.

According to Iranian and Russian intel, he has been providing terrorists in Syria with chemical agents and training for manufacturing chemical weapons.