Jamal Abdul Karim al-Dabban explained

Sheik Jamal Abdul Karim al-Dabban (Arabic: جمال عبدالكريم الدبان) (c. 1939 – 17 June 2007) was a moderate Sunni cleric in the city of Tikrit, Iraq.

al-Dabban was the senior Sunni religious leader between July 2004 and his death. He was a moderate Sunni leader with no links to insurgent groups.^[1]

On June 24, 2006 he was arrested along with his two sons by the United States Army in Iraq on suspicion of being a terrorist. After mass protest by Iraqi people in Tikrit the American authorities apologized and released him.^[2]

al-Dabban died on 17 June 2007 from a heart attack.^[1]

External links

• U.S. Troops Briefly Detain Sunni Leader
• US detains top Iraqi Sunni cleric
• Iraqi Sunnis Condemn Mufti Detention
• Iraq's Sunni mufti dies of heart attack

Notes and References

1. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna19281117 NBC News "Iraq's top Sunni religious leader dies" June 17 2007
2. Web site: CNN " Iraqi cleric freed after U.S. raid" 24 June 2006 . 5 January 2019 . 27 June 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060627054853/http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/24/iraq.main/index.html . dead .