Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi
Mohammed Hamza az-Zubeidi | |
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محمد حمزة الزبيدي | |
59th Prime Minister of Iraq | |
In office September 16, 1991 – September 5, 1993 | |
President | Saddam Hussein |
Preceded by | Sa'dun Hammadi |
Succeeded by | Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai |
Personal details | |
Born | 1938 Iraq |
Died | December 2, 2005 Iraq | (aged 66–67)
Political party | Ba'ath Party |
Mohammed Hamza az-Zubeidi (1938 – December 2, 2005) (
Career
Az-Zubeidi was a Ba'athist whose loyalty lay with his ethnicity (Arab) rather than his personal faith.[1] He played a key part in the suppression of the multi-ethnic Shiite uprising in March 1991. He became the country's prime minister in September that year and remained in this position for two years, until he was replaced by Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai in September 1993.
He was a member of the Revolutionary Command Council and the commander of the Central Euphrates military district, but had not been in power for two years.
He was the Queen of Spades in the deck of
He remained in American custody until his death of natural causes in a military hospital on December 2, 2005.[1] On that day, an American spokesman revealed that someone had died in a military hospital but did not reveal his name. Two days later, Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti announced Zubeidi's death at his trial, complaining that they were both suffering from cancer and that he did not want to end up dead like Zubeidi because of what he claimed was poor medical treatment.
References
- ^ a b "Former Iraq PM dies in US custody". BBC. December 6, 2005. Archived from the original on 2021-04-11. Retrieved January 12, 2024.