Saadi Toma Abbas Arabic: سعدي طعمة عباس | |
Office: | Minister of Defence |
President: | Saddam Hussein |
Term Start: | 12 December 1990 |
Term End: | 6 April 1991 |
Predecessor: | Abdul Jabbar Khalil Shanshal |
Successor: | Ali Hassan al-Majid |
Office1: | Minister of Labor and Social Affairs |
Term Start1: | 28 June 1998 |
Term End1: | 28 June 2002 |
Predecessor1: | Abdul Hamid Abdul Aziz Al-Sayegh |
Successor1: | Munther Muzaffar al-Naqshbandi |
Birth Date: | 17 March 1939 |
Birth Place: | Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq |
Death Place: | Dhi Qar, Iraq |
Party: | Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Allegiance: | Iraq |
Branch: | Iraqi Army |
Rank: | Colonel General |
Battles: | Iran–Iraq War Gulf War 1991 uprising in Iraq 2003 invasion of Iraq |
Honorific Prefix: | Colonel General |
Saadi Toma Abbas (Arabic: سعدي طعمة عباس; 17 March 1939 – 23 June 2020) was a former Iraqi military and politician. He was born in 1939 and held various ministerial positions during the rule of Saddam Hussein.
On 12 December 1990, he was appointed as Ministry of Defence and remained in office until 6 April 1991. He worked as military advisor at the Presidential Court from 6 April 1991 to 1998. In 1998 he was appointed Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and remained in his position until 29 June 2002.
He was arrested by the American forces in 18 May 2003.
On 2 December 2008, the Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court sentenced him to 15 years in prison for suppressing the 1991 uprising in Iraq while he was serving as commander of the military forces in the southern region. [1]
He died in the Al-Hout prison in Dhi Qar on 23 June 2020.[2]