Osama Maukhlif Tawfiq al-Tikriti ( ar, أسامة التكريتي) is a former leader of the

Iraqi Islamic Party The Iraqi Islamic Party is the largest Sunni Islamist political party in Iraq as well as the most prominent member of the Iraqi Accord Front political coalition. It was part of the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and is part of the ...

, a Sunni Arab religious party which was the largest Sunni Arab led party in the

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Biography

Osama Tawfiq al-Tikriti was born in

Tikrit Tikrit ( ar, تِكْرِيت ''Tikrīt'' , Syriac: ܬܲܓܪܝܼܬܼ ''Tagrīṯ'') is a city in Iraq, located northwest of Baghdad and southeast of Mosul on the Tigris River. It is the administrative center of the Saladin Governorate. , it h ...

, Iraq, where

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutio ...

is also from. The two attended the same school. He studied at the

University of Baghdad The University of Baghdad (UOB) ( ar, جامعة بغداد ''Jāmi'at Baghdād'') is the largest university in Iraq, tenth largest in the Arab world, and the largest university in the Arab world outside Egypt. Nomenclature Both University ...

's Faculty of Medicine and graduated in 1963. He started his career working in hospitals. He joined the Muslim Brotherhood in Iraq in 1952, and was an active member of the short-lived

when it was founded in 1960. In 1972, he moved to London to study radiology and remained three decades abroad to avoid an incarceration by the Hussein's regime in his country. From 1978 to 1980, he worked at the Ministry of Health of the

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia ( The Middle East). It is located at t ...

, and was head of radiology in the private clinic of the

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. Osama Tawfiq al-Tikriti finally returned to Irak in 2003 after the US invasion, and became an active political figure. He succeeded Tariq al-Hashimi, Vice President of Iraq, as leader of the IIP when al-Hashimi left the party to form the

Renewal List The Renewal List (Tajdeed) is an Iraqi political party founded by the Sunni Arab Vice President of Iraq, Tariq al-Hashimi in 2009 to contest the Iraqi legislative election of 2010. al-Hashimi was the leader of the Iraqi Islamic Party, a Sunni Ar ...

. Tikriti took over as Secretary General of the IIP on 24 May 2009. Ayad al-Samarrai was elected as his Deputy. He was a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq from

Baghdad Governorate Baghdad Governorate ( ar, محافظة بغداد ''Muḥāfaẓät Baġdād''), also known as the Baghdad Province, is the capital governorate of Iraq. It includes the capital Baghdad as well as the surrounding metropolitan area. The governorat ...

. He is a member of the CoR's Committee on Foreign Affairs. Tikriti's son,

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, is the former head of the

Muslim Association of Britain The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) is a British Sunni Muslim organisation founded in 1997. MAB has been well known for its participation in the protests opposing the Iraq War. More recently, it has been known for promoting Muslim partic ...

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1939 births Living people Alumni of the University of London Iraqi Islamic Party politicians Members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq Iraqi Sunni Muslims Sunni Islamists {{Iraq-politician-stub