Fugitive Saddam deputy calls for Baghdad liberation

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) An audio message, allegedly from close aide to President Saddam Hussein, called on all Iraqis to unite efforts to liberate the country and praised the Sunni insurgents who led the attack, which happened last month across northern Iraq.

It was stated that this audio recording released on a website loyal to Saddam’s ousted Baath Party was said to have been made by Ezzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the top official of Saddam’s aides who is still at large after the overthrow of Saddam in the US-led invasion.

Despite his age and his illness, it is believed that al-Douri, leads the Baathist militant group Army Naqshbandi, one of the many groups supported the organization of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in the surprise attack across the Sunni provinces in northern and western Iraq last month.

The Sound contained in the registry, which reached a 15-minute praised al-Qaeda fighters and the organization of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, as well as other groups that are fighting the”colonialism Persian Safavid” ,in a reference to the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s Shi’ite-led.

He also alluded to the obvious divisions which are increasingly among the various groups fighting the forces of al-Maliki, saying that it is important to put their differences aside and unite.