Saadoun al-Dulaimi

Saadoun al- Dulaimi (Arabic سعدون الدليمي, DMG Sa ʿ Adun ad - Dulaimi ), a Sunni, and former defense minister of Iraq.

It was during the time of Saddam Hussein officer in the Iraqi army, but fled to Saudi Arabia in 1986, when he was sentenced to death in absentia for Mitwirkens to a failed assassination attempt on Saddam Hussein. In Britain, he received his doctorate in social psychology and taught in Jordan and the United States. He is a respected psychologist and statistician. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, he returned to Iraq. He is a member of the influential Dulaimi tribe and comes from Ramadi, capital of the western Iraqi province of al - Anbar, where the resistance to the troops of the United States is very strong.

Saadoun al- Dulaimi speaks fluent English and is considered a moderate and secular. Observers say ad - Dulaimi was the US-led civil administration of Iraq, Jay Garner and been critical later under Paul Bremer.

In the first freely elected Iraqi government since Saddam Hussein, he was elected Secretary of Defense. By his appointment, and the appointment of Abid al - Mutlaq Dschiburi Deputy Prime Minister hopes to appease the Sunni resistance fighters and to be able to involve them in the political process in Iraq.

On May 26, 2005, al- Dulaimi, together with the Shiite Interior Minister Bayan Baqir Sulagh a plan to combat terrorism in Baghdad before, where it is provided that at all Baghdad barriers are erected and a total of 40,000 police and soldiers are used. Regarding the province al - Anbar said ad - Dulaimi, no one would be exempted from security measures, not even his own brothers.

In April 2006 a reshuffle and his successor in the Ministry of Defense Abdul Qadir Mohammed Jasim was carried out.

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