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Special Dispatch-Iraq
October 20, 2006
No. 1329
The Iraqi Ba'th Party Issues a Hit List
To view this Special Dispatch in HTML, visit:
http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD132906 .
The disbanded Iraqi Ba'th Party issued, on September 5, 2006, a hit
list of Iraqi political, judicial and military figures, referred to as
criminals, collaborators and renegades, targeted for punishment
(assassination).
The document, shaped as a flyer (to see the flyer, please visit:
http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD132906 ) was issued by
the Dhe Qar Directorate of Operation "Special Operations," and
addressed to the commanders of the special units, informing them that
the order was approved by the secretary-general of the party and the
acting commander-in-chief of the armed forces. The reference is to
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who was Saddam Hussein's vice president and
remains on the most wanted list in Iraq, with a reward of $20 million
for his capture.
The following is the original hit list of those targeted for
assassination. MEMRI Baghdad has provided the information in the
brackets on the current or previous positions or titles of the vast
majority of those appearing on the hit list:
1. Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim: [Head of the Supreme Command of the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq and head of the ruling Shi'ite coalition in the
Iraqi Parliament
2. 'Ammar Abd al-Hakim: [The son of, and often the spokesman for, Abd
al-Aziz al-Hakim, and second-ranking official in SCIRI]
3. Hadi al-'Ameri: [Member of Parliament, head of the Badr Militia
(SCIRI)]
4. Sadr al-Din al-Qabanchi: [One of the leaders of the Sadrist
movement]
5. Muwafaq al-Rabi'i: [Member of Parliament and National Security
Adviser]
6. Nuri al-Maliki: [Current Prime Minister]
7. Ali al-Adib: [Member of Parliament, Da'wa Party]
8. Jalal al-Saghir: [Member of Parliament]
9. Ibrahim al-Ja'fari: [Former prime minister]
10. Baqir Jaber Solagh: [Former minister of interior]
11. Ahmad al-Chalabi: [Head of Iraqi National Congress and former
deputy prime minister]
12. Abd al-Karim al-Inzi: [Member of Parliament, head of Da'wa Party -
Tandhim al-Iraq]
13. Akram al-Hakim: [Member of Parliament, cousin of Abd al-Aziz
al-Hakim]
14. Muqtada al-Sadr: [Radical Shi'ite cleric and head of the Mahdi
Army]
15. Abd al-Hadi Al-Darraji: [Head of al-Sadr Movement in Baghdad]
16. Salam al-Maliki: [Member of Parliament, former minister of
transportation]
17. Baha al-Din Ali al-A'raji
18. Hazem al-Sha'lan: [Former minister of defense in the Allawi
government]
19. Hussein al-Shahristani: [Minister of Oil, a physicist imprisoned by
Saddam for refusing to work on nuclear program]
20. Hamid Majid Moussa: [Secretary-General of the Communist Party and
Member of Parliament]
21. Abd al-Karim Mahud al-Mahmadani: [Head of Hizbullah]
22. Ghazi al-Yawer: [Member of Parliament, former interim president of
Iraq]
23. Intifadh Qanbar: [Former aide to al-Chalabi, currently at the Iraqi
Embassy in Washington, D.C.]
24. Ayad Allawi: [Former interim prime minister and head of the Iraqiya
list in parliament]
25. Rasim al-Awadi: [Member of Parliament, Iraqiya list]
26. Mahmud al-Mashhadani: [Speaker of Parliament]
27. Jalal Talabani: [President of Iraq]
28. Mas'oud Barzani: [President, Regional Government of Kurdistan]
29. Fuad Ma'sum: [Minister of Planning]
30. Adel abd al-Mehdi: [Vice President of Iraq]
31. Sa'doun al-Duleimi: [Member of Parliament]
32. Wafiq al-Samara'i: [Security Adviser to the President of Iraq]
33. Fallah al-Naqib: [Former minister of interior in Allawi's
government]
34. Tha'ir al-Naqib: [National Accord Party]
35. Muhammad Abdallah Al-Shahwani: [Head of Military Intelligence]
36. Ayad Jamal al-Din: [A liberal cleric, Member of Parliament]
37. Tariq al-Hashemi: [Vice President of Iraq and head of the Islamic
Party. His brother, Gen. Amer al-Hashemi, an adviser to the Minister of
Defense, was assassinated on October 9, 2006. The Iraqi Ba'th Party
operating from Syria claimed responsibility for the assassination]
38. Ayad al-Samara'i: [Member of Parliament, Islamic Party]
39. Abbas al-Bayati: [Member of Parliament, Turkmen]
40. Wa'il abd al-Latif: [Member of Parliament from Basra, Iraqiya list]
41. Jawad al-Bulani: [Member of Parliament, Da'wa Party]
42. Ali al-Lami: [Member of Parliament, Iraqi Coalition]
43. Judge Ra'ouf Rashid Abd al-Rahman: [Trial judge in the al-Dujail
case. There was a failed attempt on his life on September 28, 2006,
which resulted in the death of his brother-in-law and his nephew]
44. Ja'far al-Musawi: [Chief Prosecutor in the Supreme Criminal Court]
45. Munqidth al-Far'oun: [Prosecutor in the Supreme Criminal Court]
46. Rashid Juhi: [Investigative judge of Saddam Hussein]
47. Mithal al-Alousi: [Head of the Nations Party and Member of
Parliament]
48. Qassim Daoud: [Former state minister in Allawi's government]
49. Maj.General Mahdi Sabeeh al-Gharawi: [Secretary-General, Ministry
of Interior]
50. Maj. Gen. Hussein Ali Kamal: [In charge of Baghdad command,
Ministry of Interior]
51. Maj. Gen. Rashid Flaih
52. Maj. Gen. Ahmad al- Khafaji: [Former secretary-general, Ministry of
Interior]
53. Maj. Gen. Mohammad Zaidan
54. Maj. Gen. Mohammad Al-Nu'mah
55. Maj. Gen. Mohammad Dhu al-Fiqar: [Military commander, Ministry of
Defense]
56. Brig. Gen. Abd al-Salam Shahwan: [Commander, Wolf Brigade, Ministry
of Defense]
57. Brig. Gen. abd al-Jalil Khalaf Shwail al-Mahmadawi: [Ministry of
Defense]
58. Brig. Gen. Najm al-Iqabi: [Commander, Hamza Group, Ministry of
Defense]
59. Brig. Gen. Abbas Hussein Al-Musawi
60. Brig. Gen. Karim Nasser: [Ministry of Defense]
61. Judge Muhammad al-Uraibi Majid al-Khalifa: [Presiding judge over
Saddam Hussein's Anfal Trial. Name was not on the original list, but it
was a handwritten notation]
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right now might be for the US to withdraw from Iraq?
Perhaps the Iranians would be unable to resist ensnaring themsleves in
an Iraqi civil war. They do, after all, share a long border w/Iraq and
would probably love to have some kind of control over their neighbor's
petroleum resources -- or if nothing else, a more powerful alliance
with its religious majority. If we were outta there, not only would we
be free to redeploy elsewhere as needed, we might find some new
leverage in dissuading Iran from its nuclear aims. What would Tehran
say to an ultimatum like, Admit inspectors or else it's you and the
Iraqi Shia against us and the Iraqi Sunnis, with us in the air and you
on the ground?