Rafi' Dahham Mejwel Al-Hazza Al-Tikriti ( ar, رافع دحام مجول الهزاع التكريتي; 24 April 1937 – 11 October 1999) was from the same subtribe of

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 revolution ...

's, Member of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council, Director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, the former Iraqi Ambassador to Turkey, and former Head of the Iraqi Secret Services, which is equivalent to the

Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, ...

(FBI) of the United States when conducting domestic activities. He was one of the well known political figures in Iraq. The former Iraqi Government during

era announced his official death date as 11 October 1999, whereupon he was buried in

Tikrit Tikrit ( ar, تِكْرِيت ''Tikrīt'' , Syriac language, 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 Gover ...

, Salah ad Din, which is the home town of many senior members of the Iraqi government during the Saddam era.

List of directors

What follows is a list of Directors of the well known Iraqi Intelligence Service Directors.

References

External links

Global Security Organization
* Intelligence Agency Duties 1937 births 1999 deaths Iraqi writers Government ministers of Iraq Iraqi Sunni Muslims Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region politicians Ambassadors of Iraq to Turkey {{Iraq-politician-stub