For his part, Doctor Nashwan Mohammed Sabar at the Tikrit General hospital said the ailing Ibrahim had not been brought there

For his part, Doctor Nashwan Mohammed Sabar at the Tikrit General hospital said the ailing Ibrahim had not been brought there.

At the clinic in Ad Dawr, where mbt shoesi national guard and interior ministry officials said Duri was caught, nurses Hassan Mohammed al-Duri and Shema Kazem Alwan said: “We have never seen Izzat Ibrahim.”

Asked about the flurry of denials, interior ministry spokesperson Adnan Abdelrahman, who had previously confirmed the arrest and provided abundant details about its circumstances, said: “Call the defence ministry because these are the people who told us this story.”

However, mbt shoesi defence ministry officials were not answering their phones.