Mohammed Hamza az-Zubeidi | |
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محمد حمزة الزبيدي | |
 Zubeidi in the 1990s | |
| Prime Minister of Iraq | |
| In office September 16, 1991 – September 5, 1993 | |
| President | Saddam Hussein |
| Preceded by | Sa'dun Hammadi |
| Succeeded by | Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai |
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| Born | 1938 (1938) |
| Died | December 2, 2005(2005-12-02) (aged 66–67) |
| Political party | Ba'ath Party |
Mohammed Hamza al-Zubeidi (1938 – December 2, 2005) (Arabic:محمد حمزة الزبيدي) was an Iraqi military officer and politician who served as thePrime Minister of Iraq from 1991 to 1993. He is on the "Saddam's Dirty Dozen" list of people responsible fortorture and murder in Iraq, playing a key role in Iraq's brutal suppression of the1991 Iraqi uprisings. He was featured in Iraqi news film kicking and beating captured rebels.
Az-Zubeidi was a Ba'athist whose loyalty lay with his ethnicity (Arab) rather than his personal faith (Shia Islam).[1] He played a key part in the suppression of the multi-ethnic Shiite uprising in March 1991. He became the country's Prime minister in September that year and remained in this position for two years, until he was replaced byAhmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai in September 1993.
He was a member of theRevolutionary Command Council and the commander of the Central Euphrates military district, but had not been in power for two years.
He was the Queen of Spades in the deck ofmost-wanted Iraqi playing cards issued by the US government during thewar in Iraq. After the fall ofSaddam Hussein's regime, he was captured on April 20, 2003, near the small city ofMahaweel.
He remained in American custody until his death of natural causes in a military hospital on December 2, 2005.[1] On that day, an American spokesman revealed that someone had died in a military hospital but did not reveal his name. Two days later, Saddam Hussein's half-brotherBarzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti announced Zubeidi's death at his trial, complaining that they were both suffering from cancer and that he did not want to end up dead like Zubeidi because of what he claimed was poor medical treatment.
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| Preceded by | Prime Minister of Iraq 1991–1993 | Succeeded by |
| Mandatory Iraq (1920–1932) |
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| Kingdom of Iraq (1932–1958) |
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| First Republic of Iraq (1958–1968) |
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| Ba'athist Iraq (1968–2003) |
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| Iraqi Governing Council (2003–2004) |
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| Republic of Iraq (since 2004) |
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