Hani Abd Latif Tilfah Explained

Hani Abd Latif Talfah al-Tikriti
Order:Director of the Iraqi Special Security Organization
Term Start:2002
Term End:23 May 2003
Predecessor:Walid Hamid Tawfiq al-Tikriti
Birth Place:Tikrit, Iraq
Party:Ba'ath Party
Relations:Rafi (brother)
Khairallah (uncle)
Subha (aunt)
Badra (aunt)
Saddam Hussein (cousin)

Hani ibn Abd Latif ibn Talfah (born 1962) (Arabic: هاني عبد اللطيف طلفاح التكريتي ) is an Iraqi security official during the rule of Saddam Hussein. He was born in 1962 in Tikrit. Tilfah was the last director of the Special Security Organization of Iraq from 2002 to 2003. He assisted Qusay Hussein and is a relative of Saddam Hussein.[1]

Career

He was the "King of Hearts" in the U.S. deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards issued during the war in Iraq. Hani was captured on June 21, 2004.[2] [3]

On 6 June 2011, the Supreme Criminal Court of Iraq acquitted Hani in the case of the 1991 uprisings in Iraq because of insufficient evidence.[4]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: IRAQ: The Most Wanted. Council on Foreign Relations.
  2. Web site: Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations: 2 Mar 2009: Hansard Written Answers. TheyWorkForYou.
  3. Web site: Iraq Most Wanted Fast Facts. Editorial Research. CNN.
  4. Web site: المحكمة الجنائية تبرئ هاني عبد اللطيف طلفاح في قضية الانتفاضة الشعبانية. وكالة انباء. براثا. June 6, 2011. وكالة أنباء براثا.