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Lt.-General Sultan Hashim Ahmad Al-Tay was the former Defence Minister of Iraq under Saddam Hussein 's rule. A close relative of Saddam Hussein, he was appointed to the position in 1995. , Iraq, March 3, 1991 with US interpreter Rick Francona ]] As the invasion of Iraq loomed, it was reported in '' The Guardian '' on February 2003 that he had been placed under house arrest by Saddam Hussein, in a move that was apparently designed to prevent a coup. Nevertheless he continued to appear on Iraqi state TV, to preserve a sense of normality. He was number 27 on the United States ' List Of Most Wanted Former Iraqi Officials . On September 19 , 2003 , after nearly a week of negotiations, he gave himself up in Mosul . He served Saddam during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War and later in the First Gulf War, signing the cease-fire that ended it. He survived several purges and became the highest-ranking general in the Iraqi army. In 1988, as commander of the Iraq Army's First Corps, he played a direct role in the genocidal Anfal campaign against rural Kurds. Ahmad's specialty was military intelligence; he graduated from Baghdad's National Security Institute in 1975. On the 24th of June 2007 he was sentenced to death by hanging for war crimes against humanity. EXTERNAL LINK |
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