Article Photos: Purported Saddam aide: Iraq's invasion helped Iran



  FILE -This photo undated file photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri pictured on the deck of cards put out by the U.S. military to help capture the most wanted officials of Saddam Hussein's regime. The highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime, still at large, says Iraqâs 1990 invasion of Kuwait was a tarp planned by the United States, Israel and Iran. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, in a two-part online interview with Egyptâs Al-Ahram online newspaper posted Monday, Oct. 1, 2012 and Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, said Iraqâs occupation was âa result of an American imperialist, Zionist and Farsi (Iranian) plan... they set the Kuwait issue as a well-planned tarp in which the Iraqi leadership fell in.â(AP Photo/U.S. Army, File)

FILE -This photo undated file photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri pictured on the deck of cards put out by the U.S. military to help capture the most wanted officials of Saddam Hussein's regime. The highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime, still at large, says Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait was a tarp planned by the United States, Israel and Iran. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, in a two-part online interview with Egypt’s Al-Ahram online newspaper posted Monday, Oct. 1, 2012 and Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, said Iraq’s occupation was “a result of an American imperialist, Zionist and Farsi (Iranian) plan... they set the Kuwait issue as a well-planned tarp in which the Iraqi leadership fell in.”(AP Photo/U.S. Army, File)