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[[Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti]] is the former head of Iraqi intelligence.

Habbush was appointed head of Iraqi intelligence in 1999, shortly after an assassination attempt on [[Uday Hussein]] which may have been related to the death of his predecessor.<ref>Death of intelligence head linked to Uday assassination attempt, BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, October 16, 1999.</ref>

He was one one 14 officials reportedly blacklisted by the US in the run-up to the Iraq War in January 2003.<ref>IRAQI OPPOSITION SOURCE ON US "BLACKLIST" OF BAGHDAD WAR CRIMINALS, BBC Monitoring International Reports, January 10, 2003.</ref> He was the jack of diamonds in a deck of cards produced by the US in April 2003 featuring wanted members of [[Saddam Hussein]]'s regime.<ref>Who's Who in Iraqi Most Wanted Deck, Associated Press Online, April 11, 2003.</ref> Later that month, members of Iraq's Dulayn tribe reportedly contacted former [[CIA]] officer [[Robert Baer]] in an attempt to arrange a meeting between Habbush and the US.<ref>Saddam's intelligence chief tried to arrange meeting with US: report, Agence France Presse, 22 April 2003.</ref>

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 Habbush was appointed head of Iraqi intelligence in 1999, shortly after an assassination attempt on [[Uday Hussein]] which may have been related to the death of his predecessor.<ref>Death of intelligence head linked to Uday assassination attempt, BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, October 16, 1999.</ref>
-He was one one 14 officials reportedly blacklisted by the US in the run-up to the Iraq War in January 2003.<ref>IRAQI OPPOSITION SOURCE ON US "BLACKLIST" OF BAGHDAD WAR CRIMINALS, BBC Monitoring International Reports, January 10, 2003.</ref> He was the jack of diamonds in a deck of cards produced by the US in April 2003 featuring wanted members of [[Saddam Hussein]]'s regime.<ref>Who's Who in Iraqi Most Wanted Deck, Associated Press Online, April 11, 2003.</ref> Later that month, members of Iraq's Dulayn tribe reportedly contacted former [[CIA]] officer [[Robert Baer]] in an attempt to arrange a meeting between Habbush and the US.<ref>Saddam's intelligence chief tried to arrange meeting with US: report, Agence France Presse, 22 April 2003.</ref>
+::The Iraqi first emerged as a public figure in the early '90s, when he was the governor of Dhi Qar, a province in southern Iraq that historically had given Saddam's regime trouble. By the mid-'90s, Habbush had moved into the ministry of the interior, where he was undersecretary for security affairs, and worked as the country's police chief prior to taking over as head of Iraqi intelligence in 1999. His predecessor, [[Rafi Dahham al-Tikriti]], died under mysterious circumstances, most likely killed on orders from Saddam. Habbush took over as head of the Iraqi intelligence service, or the Mukhabarat, as it's commonly known. Like many of Saddam's senior officials, he had blood on his hands. Saddam respected those who would kill on command. Habbush was such a man.<ref>[http://www.ronsuskind.com/thewayoftheworld/2008/08/tahir_jalil_habbush.html Tahir Jalil Habbush], Ron Suskind, The Way of the World, accessed 12 August 2008.</ref>
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