| Order: | Vice President of Iraq |
| Alongside: | Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf and Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri |
| Term Start: | March 1991 |
| Term End: | 9 April 2003 |
| Predecessor: | Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri |
| Successor: | Ibrahim Jaafari and Rowsch Shaways |
| President: | Saddam Hussein |
| Order1: | Head of the Popular Army |
| Term Start1: | 1974 |
| Term End1: | 1991 |
| Office2: | Deputy Secretary of the Regional Command of the Iraqi Regional Branch |
| Term Start2: | 16 July 1979 |
| Term End2: | September 1991 |
| Predecessor2: | Saddam Hussein |
| Successor2: | Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri |
| Office3: | Member of the Regional Command of the Iraqi Regional Branch |
| Term Start3: | October 1966 |
| Term End3: | 9 April 2003 |
| Birth Date: | 20 February 1938 |
| Birth Place: | Mosul, Kingdom of Iraq |
| Death Place: | Kadhimiya, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Party: | Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
| Death Cause: | Execution by hanging |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi (Arabic: طه ياسين رمضان الجزراوي; 20 February 1938 – 20 March 2007) was an Iraqi politician and militia commander, who served as one of the three vice presidents of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003.
In October 2002, four months before the United States invaded Iraq, Ramadan suggested U.S. President George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein settle their difference in a duel.[1] He reasoned this would not only serve as an alternative to a war that was certain to damage Iraq's infrastructure,[2] but that it would also reduce the suffering of the Iraqi and American peoples. Ramadan's offer included the possibility that a group of US officials would face off with a group of Iraqi officials of same or similar rank (President v. President, Vice President v. Vice President, etc.). Ramadan proposed that the duel be held in a neutral land, with each party using the same weapons, and with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan presiding as the supervisor. On behalf of Bush, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer declined the offer.
Following the fall of Saddam's government, Taha Yasin Ramadan was placed on the U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis and depicted as the "Ten of Diamonds" in the US deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards. He was captured on August 19, 2003, in Mosul, by fighters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and handed over to US forces.[3]
He was one of the defendants in the Iraq Special Tribunal's Al-Dujail trial. On 5 November 2006, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. On 26 December 2006, the appeals court sent the case file back to the Tribunal, saying the sentence was too lenient and demanding a death sentence.[4] On 12 February 2007, he was sentenced to death by hanging.[5] His sentence was carried out on the fourth anniversary of US invasion of Iraq, before dawn on 20 March 2007.[6] [7]
Ramadan was born to a peasant family in Mosul.[8] Sources have claimed he is of Kurdish origin,[9] while his family has stated he is Arab.[10]