Mizban Khadr al-Hadi (

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: ) was a general and politician in

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. He served as a member of the Revolutionary Command Council from 1991 to 2001.

Biography

Hadi was born in 1938 in Mandali District, in what is now

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. Hadi was extremely close to

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, serving as a key advisor since the early 1980s, particularly on Shiite affairs. He was made a Minister without portfolio in June 1982, and before that served as Governor of Najaf. Hadi was decorated by Saddam Hussein for his role in both the

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and the subsequent

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. Due to his close links to Saddam Hussein, Hadi was elevated in March 2003 to command the central Euphrates region; one of Iraq's four military regions during the

2003 invasion of Iraq The 2003 invasion of Iraq was a United States-led invasion of the Republic of Iraq and the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion phase began on 19 March 2003 (air) and 20 March 2003 (ground) and lasted just over one month, including 26 ...

. Hadi was no. 23 on the Iraqi playing cards. Hadi was reported to have had been arrested by US Forces in Baghdad on 1 May 2003.

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later claimed that Hadi was arrested on 8 July 2003 after turning himself in to Coalition forces in Baghdad. Hadi died on 16 May 2020, due to a terminal illness in

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