Rafi Abd Latif Talfah al-Tikriti | |
Order: | Director of the General Security |
Birth Place: | Tikrit, Iraq |
Nationality: | Iraqi |
Party: | Ba'ath Party |
Relations: | Hani (brother) Khairallah (uncle) Subha (aunt) Badra (aunt) Saddam Hussein (cousin) |
Rafi ibn Abd al-Latif ibn Talfah (Arabic: رافع عبد اللطيف طلفاح التكريتي; born in 1954 in Tikrit) was the last head of the Iraqi Directorate of General Security secret police force at the end of President Saddam Hussein's reign. A maternal cousin of Saddam,[1] Rafi went into hiding during the Iraq War, when a United States-led Coalition invaded the country and overthrew Saddam Hussein's government. A key aide to General al-Douri, Rafi al-Tikriti provided information and actionable intelligence on anti-regime individuals and opposition groups in each governorate of Iraq, particularly Kurdish, Iranian, and Turkmen.[2]
Rafi was the "jack of hearts" in the US deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards during the Iraq War. As of 2020, he is still at large.[3] [4]
In 2018, Iraqi authorities published a list of the 60 most-wanted people, among them Rafi.[5]