Leading Iraqi Baathist dead?

I hesitated posting this, but I have a bloggeristic hunch that this is true.

The highest ranking leader still at-large from Saddam Hussein's regime has died, a Baathist Web site reported Saturday. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan met with Iraqi leaders to call for reconciliation ahead of upcoming elections.

The Web site run by former top Baath Party members said Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri died Friday, corroborating an earlier e-mail announcing the death that could not be independently confirmed.

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