Abdul-Wahid Shannan ar-Ribat

Abdul-Wahid Shannan ar-Ribat
Ribat in the early 1980s, as Commander of the Iraqi Army's 2nd Division.
Native name	عبد الواحد شنان آل رباط
Born	Samawah, Iraq
Allegiance	Ba'athist Iraq
Service/branch	Iraqi Army
Years of service	1957-1993
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	6th Corps
Battles/wars	Iran-Iraq War Operation Karbala-5

Abdul-Wahid Shannan ar-Ribat (Arabic: عبد الواحد شنان آل رباط) is a former Iraqi Army general.

Ribat, a Shiite, is from the city of Samawah in Muthanna province. He served as Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Army during the reign of Saddam Hussein.^[1]

He later went on to become the Governor of Nineveh in 1993, in which capacity he served until the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.^[2]

Reported death

On 14 June 2014 an Iraqi government spokesperson claimed Ribat was killed in a government airstrike on Mosul as part of the 2014 Northern Iraq Offensive.^[3][4][5] Ribat's family however refuted this, and claimed that he was alive and well in the United Arab Emirates, and had no contact with militant groups active in Iraq.^[6]

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