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Mubarak al-Duri

In the 1980s, he was living in Tucson, Arizona, where he was in contact with Wadi al-Hage, who also lived in the city.^[4][5] The pair were likely associated with the city's fledgling Maktab al-Khidamat.^[6]

Life in Sudan[edit]

While living in Khartoum in 1991, al-Duri shared an office with Al-Jihad member Abu Hassan el Masry.^[1] He was a personal friend of Syrian-American honey producer Mohammed Loay Bayazid, who is believed to have recruited him.^[7]

al-Duri worked for the agricultural firm named Al-Thimar al-Mubaraka (Blessed Fruits) which exported corn and sunflower seeds, and employed 10,000 workers,^[8] and was in charge of their Al-Damazin Farms project,^[9] which included 4,000 seasonal workers tending nearly a million acres (4,000 km²).^[10]

An agricultural engineer named Mohammad Zeki Mahjoub met with al-Duri, at the request of Bin Laden and became the farms' Deputy General Manager.^[3][10] On October 17, 1993, al-Duri wrote Mahjoub a reference letter vouching for his work with the farms in al-Damazin from February 1992 until May 1993.^[11]

Life in Canada[edit]

He is reported to have lived in Richmond, British Columbia, probably in the late 1990s.

He was also in contact with Mohammad Zeki Mahjoub.^[12]

In 2005, Canadian judge Eleanor Dawson released a ruling that suggested that al-Duri likely maintained contact with Essam Marzouk while living in British Columbia.^[3]

Return to Sudan[edit]

In November 2001, al-Duri was contacted by Sudanese intelligence services who informed him that the FBI had sent Jack Cloonan and several other agents, to speak with himself and Mohamed Loay Bayazid. al-Duri and another Iraqi colleague agreed to meet with Cloonan in a safe house overseen by the intelligence service. They were asked whether there was any possible connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, and laughed stating that Bin Laden hated the dictator who he believed was a "Scotch-drinking, woman-chasing apostate.”^[13]

In 2002, the CIA sent Rolf Mowatt-Larssen to again interview al-Duri and Bayazid, to see if they couldn't be made to defect, although both refused.^[14]

Now lives in hiding between the Gulf states and Iraq

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