What fifth President of Iraq did Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi lead the resistance against?
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Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. A Shia Muslim, al-Mohommedawi led the resistance against Saddam Hussein's government in the southern marsh regions of Iraq, where he gained the title "Prince of the Marshes." He was imprisoned for six years under the Hussein regime and currently leads the Iraqi political group Hezbollah in Amarah.
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Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti ( ; Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي "Ṣaddām Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Maǧīd al-Tikrītī "; 28 April 1937  – 30 December 2006) was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization the Iraqi Ba'ath Party—which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and socialism—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup (later referred to as the 17 July Revolution) that brought the party to power in Iraq.
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Ahmed Shibani Ahmed Shibani is a senior aide to radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose political movement plays a key role in Iraq's power-sharing coalition.
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Mustafa Mahmud al-Umari Mustafa Mahmood Al-Umari (also Mustafa Mahmood Al-Omari) (Arabic: مصطفى محمود العمري, born 1894 – 1962) from Mosul, Iraq (Sunni-Arab) who became an Iraqi statesman. He served as prime minister from 9 July 1952 until 22 November 1952. He was appointed by King Faisal II's cousin and regent 'Abd al-Ilāh after nationwide protests against the government. Starting out as an attorney and civil servant, he served many posts including Minister of Interior and Minister of Justice. In 1952, his failure to maintain control during the Intifada cost him his position. He was also a provincial Governor and Senator in Parliament. After the 1958 revolution against the Monarchy, he left the political scene. Being an independent, he was not associated with many of the royalists or partisans who were jailed or executed in the aftermath of the revolution. He later left to the UK for medical treatment and died there. He was later buried in the Al-Omari waqf cemetery in Mosul, Iraq.
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Ismail Jubouri Ismail Jubouri (Arabic: إسماعيل الجبوري) is the senior rebel leader of the Islamic Army in Iraq, one of the influential insurgent groups operating in Iraq. He is also a member of a prominent Sunni tribe located south of Baghdad. Jubouri's main objective is to remove foreign troops from Iraq, often using insurgent tactics to do so. He was quoted as saying "The members of his army believe in the language of weapons".
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Haider al-Abadi Haider Jawad Kadhim Al-Abadi (or al-'Ibadi; Arabic: حيدر جواد كاظم العبادي‎ ‎ , born 25 April 1952) is an Iraqi politician who has been Prime Minister of Iraq since September 2014. Previously he served as Minister of Communication from 2003 to 2004, in the first government after Saddam Hussein.
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Rana Hussein Rana Saddam Hussein (Arabic :رنا صدام حسين, born 1969) is the second-eldest daughter of the former President of Iraq,
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Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf (ca. 1929 - 7 August 2009) was an Iraqi politician and served as Vice President of Iraq from 1974 until the U.S. invasion in May 2003.
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Faisal II of Iraq Faisal II (Arabic: الملك فيصل الثاني "Al-Malik Fayṣal Ath-thānī") (2 May 1935 – 14 July 1958) was the last King of Iraq. He reigned from 4 April 1939 until July 1958, when he was executed during the 14 July Revolution together with numerous members of his family. This regicide marked the end of the thirty-seven-year-old Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, which then became a republic.
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Mohammed Nour Abdelkerim Mohammed Nour Abdelkerim (born 1960) is a former Chadian rebel leader. After signing a peace agreement with the government, he served as Minister of Defense for nine months in 2007.
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Arrest of Abdolmalek Rigi The arrest of Abdolmalek Rigi took place in 2010 in an extraordinary international operation by Iranian security forces, under unclear circumstances, as Rigi was extracted from a passenger jet on his way from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan. Iranian Ministry of Intelligence had tracked Abdolmalek Rigi's, leader of Jundallah militant group, movements for five months and then arrested him on 23 February 2010.
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Abdullah al-Amiri Abdullah al-Amiri ( ;) was a judge in the trial of Iraqi former president Saddam Hussein who was replaced after allegations of bias.
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Ali Abdullah Saleh Ali Abdullah Saleh (Arabic: علي عبد الله صالح‎ ‎ , "ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ"; born 21 March 1942) is a Yemeni politician who rose to power following the assassination of President al-Ghashmi. He was elected President of North Yemen (the Yemen Arab Republic) on 17 July 1978 at the age of 36. Following the merger of North Yemen with South Yemen on 22 May 1990, President Saleh was sworn in as the new President. Long considered a moderate President, he oversaw his country's development of deeper ties with Western powers, especially the United-States, in its fight against terrorism. In 2011, in wake of the "Arab Spring" that spread across Yemen, Saleh's time in office became more and more untenable, until eventually he was ousted as President of Yemen in 2012. He was succeeded in office by Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
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Arif Abd ar-Razzaq Arif Abd ar-Razzaq or Aref Abdel Razzak (1921 – 30 March 2007; Arabic: عارف عبد الرزاق) was Prime Minister of Iraq for 11 days in September 1965. On September 17 he fled to Egypt, after participating in a failed coup d'état against President Abdul Salam Arif. On 12 June 1966 he led another unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the new government of Premier Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz and President Abdul Rahman Arif.
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Abd al-Karim Qasim Abd Al-Karim Qasim Muhammed Bakr Al-Fadhli Al-Zubaidi (Arabic: عبد الكريم قاسم‎ ‎ "`Abd Al-Karīm Qāsim " ] ) (21 November 1914 – 9 February 1963), was a nationalist Iraqi Army brigadier who seized power in a 1958 coup d'état, wherein the Iraqi monarchy was eliminated. He ruled the country as 24th Prime Minister until his downfall and death during the 1963 Ramadan Revolution.
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Ayad al-Jumaili Ayad Hamid Khalaf Al-Jumaili (also known as Abu Yahya; Arabic: أياد الجميلي) was a senior leader in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and an intelligence official under the government of former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein.
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Ra'ad al-Hamdani Ra'ad Majid Rashid al-Hamdani (Arabic: رعد مجيد الحمداني‎ ‎ ) was a General of the Iraqi Republican Guard, and was one of Saddam Hussein's favourite officers.
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Ahmad Jarba Ahmad Jarba (Arabic: أحمد عوينان العاصي الجربا‎ ‎ ), born in the city of Qamishli in 1969, is a Syrian opposition member and former political prisoner. He is a public opponent of Bashar al-Assad and between 6 July 2013 and 11 July 2014 he was President of the Syrian National Coalition, which is the main coalition of opposition groups in the Syrian Civil War, as well as being a member of the Syrian National Council. His election took place in the second round of voting of a three days meeting organized by the Coalition in order to renew its board. He obtained 55 votes, three more than his rival Mustafa Sabbagh, who was supported by Qatar. According to a July 2013 article in The Economist, "there is little reason to believe he will wield more influence than his predecessor, Moaz al-Khatib." Jarba was re-elected on 5 January 2014, with 65 votes, defeating his only opponent Riyad Farid Hijab by 13 votes.
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Saddam Kamel Saddam Kamel Hassan al-Majid (1956-1996) was the second cousin and son-in-law of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
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Popular Mobilization Forces The People's Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) (Arabic: الحشد الشعبي‎ ‎ "Al-Hashd Al-Sha'abi"), is an Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organization composed of some 40 militias, which are mainly Shia Muslim groups, but also including Sunni Muslim, Christian, and Yazidi individuals as well. The People's Mobilization was formed upon a non-sectarian fatwa by the Iraqi top Shia cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani calling for national moblization against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The organization was formed by uniting existing militias under the "People's Mobilization Committee" of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior in June 2014. The Popular Mobilization Units has been accused of human rights violations against Sunni civilians and sectarian bloodletting but the Iraqi officials have described these violations as sporadic and took immediate punitive measures and Iraqi Shia clerics immediately urged the members to avoid war crimes.
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Aiham Alsammarae Aiham Alsammarae (also spelled Ayham Al-Samarie, and Ayham Al-Sammarae; Arabic: أيهم السامرائي‎ ‎ ; born 15 July 1951) is a nationalistic, Sunni, Iraqi politician who served as Minister of Electricity from August 2003 until May 2005. He has been an active member of the Iraqi National List (headed by Iyad Allawi) and has fought hard for political reconciliation among Iraq's political parties as well as against the policy of de-Ba'athification, since his resignation as Minister of Electricity. Previously, he was a prominent member of the Iraqi Opposition and lived in exile in the U.S. for over 30 years.
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Mehdi Araghi Mahdi Iraqi (1930 – 26 August 1979) (Persian: مهدی عراقی‎ ‎ ) was a founder of Fadayan-e Islam. He and a friend had participated in Hassan-Ali Mansur's terror, and he was kept in prison during the Shah's regime until the Iranian Revolution. After the revolution he was in charge of Qasr Prison, the prison from which he had recently been freed. He was assassinated by the Forghan group on 13 August 1979.