Ali al-Haidari

Ali al - Haidari (Arabic علي الحيدري, ʿ Alī al - Haidari DMG, † January 4, 2005 in Baghdad, Iraq) was an Iraqi politician and Governor and Mayor of Baghdad.

Al- Haidari was responsible for the region of Baghdad last. Already in September 2004, an attack was made ​​on his life, but he survived. On 4 January 2005 he was assassinated in Baghdad district Hurriyya. It also one of his bodyguards was killed. On a web page appeared a video with the murder. It takes over the terror group led by Jordanian Abu Musab al the -Zarqawi, the responsibility for the attack.