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2 unusual facts about Adnan al-Dulaimi


Jill Carroll

On January 7, 2006, Carroll, along with an interpreter and driver, traveled to the Adel district of Baghdad to interview Adnan al-Dulaimi, a Sunni politician and leader of the Iraqi People's Conference.

Sunni political leader Adnan al-Dulaimi, whom Carroll was attempting to visit when she was kidnapped, gave a press conference on January 20, 2006, and gave the following statements.


Adnan al-Ghoul

On 26 September 2003, he reportedly attended a meeting with Mohammed Deif, Ismail Haniya, one of Hamas' political leaders, and the organisation's spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yasin, when Israeli forces bombed the house where they gathered.

Among those weapons, anti-tank rockets such as the Al-Bana, the Batar, and later the Yasin were often used by Hamas in its attacks against settlements or Israeli soldiers in Gaza, as well as for defense purposes during IDF's incursions.

Adnan al-Janabi

Adnan al-Janabi is the father of Salam al-Janabi, better known as Salam Pax, whose English-language weblog "Where is Raed?" became famous at the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Adnan Al-Sayegh

The poems upset the intolerant armed militia and al-Sayegh was threatened with death and with having his tongue cut out.

Adnan Al-Shuaibat

As the referee of the match blew his whistle after the first 5 minutes to stop the match for Adnan to leave the field, Adnan gave the captain armband to his old international teammate Bashar Bani Yaseen as well as his #5 jersey to his young old teammate of Al-Faisaly Mohammad Muneer.

Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq

After the raid, the U.S. military launched a crackdown on the group and the raid's mastermind Azhar al-Dulaimi was killed in Baghdad, while much of the group's leadership including the brothers Qais and Laith al-Khazali and Lebanese Hezbollah member Ali Musa Daqduq who was Khazali's advisor was in charge of their relations with Hezbollah.

Azhar al-Dulaimi

According to Mark Urban's book on Special Forces in Iraq, Task Force Black, documents seized on March 20, 2007, when Qais Khazali and Ali Musa Daqduq were captured, described al Dulaimi's role in the Karbala attack and provided sufficient information for the raid where al Dulaimi died.

According to Kimberly Kagan's The Surge: A Military History Dulaimi was "the executor of the Ministry of Health and Karbala attacks".

Naziha al-Dulaimi

After the monarchy was overthrown, she was picked by President Abd al-Karim Qasim as Minister of Municipalities in the 1959 cabinet as the sole representative of the ICP in his republican government.


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