Rukan Razuki Abd al-Ghafar
Rukan Razuki Abd al-Ghafar (Ar:روكان رزوقي عبد الغفور, born 1956 in Tikrit, died 2003)[1] was the head of the tribal affairs office in Iraq under Saddam Hussein and a member of Saddam's inner circle.
He was #21 on the U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis [2] (previously #39), and was represented by the "nine of spades" in the deck of playing cards that were printed to accompany the list.
Al-Ghafar was killed in an airstrike in 2003.[3] He was removed from the US State Department's Rewards for Justice list in 2010.[4]
References
- ↑ United Nations Security Council (27 July 2005). "List of Individuals persuant to resolution 1438". Retrieved 5 February 2011.
- ↑ Matthew Beard (15 December 2003). "Most wanted list is now down to 13 from a starting pack of 55". The Independent. Retrieved 3 January 2011.
- ↑ http://www.dhiqar.net/MakalatO/MK-AboAliAladamy16-02-10.htm
- ↑ http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/index.cfm?page=iraqi_wanted&language=english