Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
| Barzan Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti | |
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Barzan is the 5 of Clubs in the "Most Wanted" playing card series issued by the US Government
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| Born |
17 February 1951 Tikrit, Iraq |
| Died | 15 January 2007 (aged 55) Baghdad, Iraq |
| Political party | Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Barzan Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti (17 February 1951 – 15 January 2007) (also known as Barazan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Barasan Ibrahem Alhassen, and Barzan Hassan) (Arabic: برزان إبراهيم الحسن التكريتي; Barzān Ibrāhīm al-Ḥasan at-Tikrītī) was one of three half-brothers of Saddam Hussein, and a leader of the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi intelligence service. Despite falling out of favour with Saddam at one time, he was believed to have been a close presidential adviser at the time of his capture. On 15 January 2007, he was hanged for crimes against humanity. The rope decapitated him because wrong measurements were used in conjunction with how far he was dropped from the platform.
Al-Tikriti was a leading figure in the Mukhabarat, the intelligence service that later turned to another agency performing the duty of Secret Police, from the 1970s, later taking over as director. During his time in the secret police, al-Tikriti played a key role in the Iraqi regime's execution of opponents at home and assassinations abroad. He was also known for his ruthlessness and brutality in purging the Iraqi military of anyone seen as disloyal.
Al-Tikriti became Iraq's representative to the United Nations in Geneva—including the UN Human Rights Committee—in 1989. He was in Geneva for almost a decade, during which he is believed to have managed clandestine accounts for the Iraqi president's overseas fortune. This task was then taken over by a network of foreign brokers, since Hussein had decided that no one in Iraq could be trusted with this task.
U.S. officials characterized al-Tikriti as a member of what they called "Saddam's Dirty Dozen", responsible for torture and mass murder in Iraq. U.S. forces captured him on 17 April 2003. Al-Tikriti was the five of clubs in the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.
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