Rukan Razuki Abd al-Ghafar
Head of the tribal affairs office in Iraq under Saddam Hussein
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| Intro | Head of the tribal affairs office in Iraq under Saddam Hussein | |
| Places | Iraq | |
| was | Politician | |
| Work field | Politics | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1956, Tikrit, Saladin Governorate, Iraq | |
| Death | 1 January 2003 (aged 47 years) |
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Biography
Rukan Razuki Abd al-Ghafar (Ar:روكان رزوقي عبد الغفور, born 1956 in Tikrit, died 2003) 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 (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. He was removed from the US State Department's Rewards for Justice list in 2010.