Barzan Abd al-Ghafur Sulayman

Barzan Abd al-Ghafur Sulayman Majid al-Tikrit (Arabic: برزان عبد الغفور سليمان مجيد التكريتي‎) (born 1960 in Saladin Governorate)[1] was a Republican Guard Commander under Saddam Hussein and member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He was the Queen of Hearts in the Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards issued to U.S. military troops to help identify most wanted members of Saddam's government during the Second Iraq War.[2] He was captured on July 23, 2003.[3]

Barzan was released from prison on 29 June 2020. [4]

References
  1. "LIST ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1483 (2003)".
  2. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/sulayman-majid-tikriti.htm
  3. "أبرز وجوه النظام العراقي السابق: أين هم الآن؟". BBC (in Arabic). 2 September 2010.
  4. https://al-ain.com/article/saddam-iraq-release-barzan
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