Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti

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Barzan Ibrahim El-Hasan al-Tikriti (sometimes: Barazan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Barasan Ibrahem Alhassen) (Arabic: برزان إبراهيم الحسن التكريتي) is one of three half-brothers of Saddam Hussein, and the former leader of the Iraqi secret service, Mukhabarat.

Saddam sent Barzan to Geneva in 1988 to serve as representative to the United Nations, a post he held until 1998.

Up to 1995, he handled Saddam's personal fortune. This task was then taken over by a network of foreign brokers, since Saddam had decided that no-one in Iraq could be trusted with this task.

U.S. officials characterized him as a member of what they called "Saddam's Dirty Dozen", responsible for torture and murder in Iraq. American forces captured him on April 17, 2003.

He was the five of clubs in the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.

He is a defendant in the Iraq Special Tribunal's Al-Dujail trial, and Abd Alsemd Alhusseini is his defence counsel. On February 1, 2006, a witness whose identity was not disclosed testifed that after her arrest, Barzan had hung her naked by her feet and kicked her repeatedly.[1]

On June 12, 2006, he was ejected from the courtroom and barred entry the following day, after an outburst in which he said the court was "terrifying"[2]

On November 5, 2006, he was sentenced to death by hanging. [3]