Taha Yassin Ramadan

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Taha Yassin Ramadan
Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri
Member of the Regional Command of the Iraqi Regional Branch
In office
October 1966 – 9 April 2003
Personal details
Born20 February 1938
Execution by hanging
Political partyIraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party

Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi (

Arabic: طه ياسين رمضان الجزراوي; 20 February 1938 – 20 March 2007) was an Iraqi politician and military officer, who served as one of the three vice presidents of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein
in April 2003.

Career

Proposed resolution to United States–Iraq conflict

Taha Yassin Ramadan with Ben Ali of Tunisia, 1988
Russian president Vladimir Putin meeting with Iraqi vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan in 2001

In October 2002, four months before the United States invaded Iraq, Ramadan suggested U.S. President

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan presiding as the supervisor. On behalf of Bush, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer
declined the offer.

Post-2003

Following the fall of Saddam's government, Taha Yasin Ramadan was placed on the U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis and depicted as the "Ten of Diamonds" in the US deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards. He was captured on August 19, 2003, in Mosul, by fighters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and handed over to US forces.[3]

He was one of the defendants in the

Iraq Special Tribunal's Al-Dujail trial. On 5 November 2006, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. On 26 December 2006, the appeals court sent the case file back to the Tribunal, saying the sentence was too lenient and demanding a death sentence.[4] On 12 February 2007, he was sentenced to death by hanging.[5] His sentence was carried out on the fourth anniversary of US invasion of Iraq, before dawn on 20 March 2007.[6][7]

Personal life

Ramadan was born to a peasant family in Mosul.[8] Sources have claimed he is of Kurdish origin,[9] while his family has stated he is Arab.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Bush challenged to 'duel' with Saddam, October 3, 2002". BBC News. 3 October 2002. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  2. ^ Kelly Wallace (3 October 2002). "W.H. rejects Bush-Saddam duel offer". CNN. Archived from the original on 17 April 2009. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  3. ^ "Saddam's VP Is Captured". CBS News. CBS. Associated Press. 19 August 2003. Retrieved 20 March 2007.
  4. ^ "Iraqi court upholds Saddam's death sentence". NBC News. Associated Press. 28 December 2006. Retrieved 20 March 2007.
  5. ^ "Top Saddam aide sentenced to hang". BBS News. 12 February 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2007.
  6. ^ "Former Iraq vice-president hanged". BBC News. 20 March 2007. Retrieved 20 March 2007.
  7. ^ Kim Gamel (20 March 2007). "Taha Yassin Ramadan, Saddam's Deputy, Is Hanged Before Dawn". New York Sun. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 31 December 2007. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
  8. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  9. ^ "Taha Yassin Ramadan". The Guardian. London. 21 March 2007. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
  10. ^ "نجل طه ياسين رمضان لـ«البيان»: والدي عربي وليس كردياً". www.albayan.ae (in Arabic). 21 March 2007. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
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