Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-Azzawi
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Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-Azzawi was finance minister
under the Saddam Hussein
regime in Iraq
. Following the fall of Saddam, he was arrested on April 18, 2003.
He is the eight of Diamonds in the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards
.
Finance minister
The finance minister is a cabinet position in a government.A minister of finance has many different jobs in a government. He or she helps form the government budget, stimulate the economy, and control finances...
under the Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
regime in Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
. Following the fall of Saddam, he was arrested on April 18, 2003.
He is the eight of Diamonds in the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards
Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards
In the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition, the U.S. military developed a set of playing cards to help troops identify the most-wanted members of President Saddam Hussein's government, mostly high-ranking Baath Party members or members of the Revolutionary Command Council...
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