Saadoun Shakir
Saadoun Shakir | |
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| Minister of the Interior | |
| Assumed office 1979 | |
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Saadoun Shakir was an Iraqi politician and intelligence official. He served as the first director of Mukhabarat, the Iraqi Intelligence Service,[1] from 1973 to 1977. A cousin of Saddam Hussein[2] and a member of the Baath Party, he had previously helped run a cell of Jihaz Haneen, a paramilitary organization.[1][3] In 1979, he was appointed as Iraq's Minister of Interior.[4]
References
- ^ a b Coughlin, Con (2002). Saddam: The Secret Life. London, U.K.: MacMillan. p. 78. ISBN 0-333-78200-3.
The first head of Mukhabarat was Saadoun Shakir, the Baath colleague who had helped him to escape from prison in 1966 and who had helped him to run Jihaz Haneen. Saddam trusted no one, and so he made Barzan al-Tikriti, his half brother, Shakir's deputy.
- ^ Coughlin, Con (2002). Saddam: The Secret Life. London, U.K.: MacMillan. p. 141. ISBN 0-333-78200-3.
- ^ Coughlin, Con (2002). Saddam: The Secret Life. London, U.K.: MacMillan. pp. 62–63. ISBN 0-333-78200-3.
The paramilitary organization, under Saddam's guidance, came to be composed of individual cells of committed and trusted party workers, with each cell working in isolation from the others. [...] Another head of a Jihaz Haneen cell was Saadoun Shakir, Saddam's friend who had driven the getaway car for his jailbreak.
- ^ Hirst, David (July 18, 1979). "Iraq's new leader faces a triple challenge". The Guardian. Retrieved November 20, 2025.
Mr Saadoun Shaker, also related to Mr Siddam, becomes Minister of the Interior, and his place as Chief of General Intelligence will presumably be taken by his deputy, Mr Barzan Takriti, the new President's brother.