Everything about Taha Yassin Ramadan totally explained
Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi (
February 22,
1938 –
March 20,
2007) was the
Vice President of Iraq from
March 1991 to the fall of
Saddam Hussein in
April 2003.
Biography
Born in Mosul and of
Kurdish origin, he became a bank clerk after completing his education. In 1956 he joined the
Ba'ath Party where he worked with Saddam Hussein, becoming a member of the
Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council after the 1963 coup that brought the Ba'ath Party to power.
Capture, trial and execution
Following the
2003 invasion of Iraq, Taha Yasin Ramadan was placed on the
U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis, and later depicted as the
Ten of Diamonds in the
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.
He was a defendant in the
Iraq Special Tribunal's
Al-Dujail trial. On
November 5,
2006 he was sentenced to life imprisonment. On
November 8,
2005, while he was on trial, one of his defense lawyers,
Adel al-Zubeidi, was assassinated by three gunmen.
However, on
December 26,
2006 the appeals court sent the case file back to the Tribunal, saying the sentence was too lenient and demanding a death sentence.
On
February 12,
2007 he was sentenced to death by hanging. His sentence was carried out exactly on the fourth anniversary of Iraq's US invasion, before dawn on March 20, 2007 at 3:05 AM Iraqi time, 12:05 UTC. His son Ahmad Ramadan stated his father would be buried in Tikrit, near Saddam's burial place, adding: "It wasn't an execution. It was a political assassination."
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