The Arabic nisba al-Tikriti refers to people who were either born in or whose family were from the Iraqi town of Tikrit.
In the mid 1990s the governor was Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, who later became police chief of the country, and in 1999, director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
In 1980, he and his family fled to London following an extortion attempt by an enforcer for Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti.
The former Iraqi Government during Saddam Hussein era announced his official death on the 11 Oct.1999 where he was buried in Tikrit which is the home town of many senior members of the Iraqi government at the center of the province of Salah ad Din.
His son, Ayman Sabawi Ibrahim, was also arrested by the US and was serving a life sentence until his escape from prison on 9 December 2006.
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Hussein's half-brother and former chief of intelligence (1951-2007)
According to the London Sunday Telegraph, Mohamed Atta is mentioned in a letter allegedly discovered in Iraq handwritten by Tahir Jalil Habbush al Takriti, former chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
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:’’Mohamed Atta, an Egyptian national, came with Abu Ammer the real name behind this Arabic alias remains a mystery and we hosted him in Abu Nidal's house at al-Dora under our direct supervision.