BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Ezzat al-Douri, the right-hand man to late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein who was reportedly killed, rose from an ice block seller as a boy to one of the country's most feared men.
The governor of Iraq's Salahuddin province said on Friday that Douri, who was Saddam's last man standing after the U.S. invasion, was killed in a military operation.
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