Key Figures in Saddam’s Government

Ahmed Husayn al-Samarrai

• Head of the Presidential Cabinet

‘Uday Saddam Husayn

• Head of the Iraqi Olympic Commission
• Head of the Iraqi Students Union
• Owner of al-Babil newspaper
• Head of the Fidayin Saddam Militia

Ahmed Rashid

• Undersecretary of the
  Ministry of Industry

Ali Hassan al-Majid

Former Head of:

• General Security Directorate
• Ba’th Party Northern Bureau
• Ba’th Party in Kuwait

Former Minister of:

• Interior
• Defense

Ayyad Futayh al-Rawi

• Chief of the General Staff of the Jerusalem Army
• General of the 2nd Corps

Abid Hamid Mahmud

• Presidential Secretary

Rashid Ta’an Kadhim

• Member of the Ba’th Party Regional (i.e., Iraqi) Command

‘Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri

• Assistant Head of the Revolutionary Command Council

Sa’dun Hamadi

• Head of the National Assembly

‘Abd al-Tawab ‘Abd Allah
al-Mulla Huwaysh

• Minster of Industry and Military Industrialization

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Sab’awi Ibrahim al-Hassan al-Tikriti

Former Member of the:

• Revolutionary Command Council
• General Security Directorate

Former Head of the General Intelligence Directorate

‘Amer Muhammad
Rashid al-‘Ubaydi

• Minister of Oil

Samir ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Najm

• Member of the Ba’th Party Regional Command

‘Adil ‘Abdallah al-Lami

• General Manager of the Nasr State Establishment

Sabir ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Duri

• Former Head of the Military Intelligence Directorate
  Mayor of Baghdad

Qusay Saddam Husayn

• Head of the Special Security Organization
• Head of the Special Republican Guard

Tariq Aziz (aka Mikhael Hanna)

• Deputy Prime Minister

Naji Sabri al-Hadithi 

• Minister of Foreign Affairs

Taha Yasin Ramadhan al-Jazrawi

• Deputy Vice President

Nizar Hamdun

• Former Iraqi Ambassador to the UN
• Undersecretary of the Minister of Foreign Affairs