Tikrit, Iraq. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the King of Clubs in the Pentagon’s 2003 Most Wanted card list, is killed by the Iraqi army during the occupation of Tikrit, which was wrested from the Islamic State. He was Saddam Hussein’s successor as leader of the Baath Party. He was killed in a military operation in the town of Alam near Tikrit. His DNA is sent to Baghdad for testing. Aged 72, he had participated in the 1968 coup that brought Saddam Hussein to power and was the leading and most important Baath Party figure not yet captured by the Americans, who had placed a $10 million bounty on his head.
