Falah Hassan al-Naqib
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Falah Hassan al-Naqib (Arabic: فلاح حسن النقيب) is an Iraqi politician and was the Minister of Interior under the Iraqi Interim Government.
Biography
[edit]Born in 1956 in Samarra, he is a Sunni Arab. He trained in the United States as a civil engineer. His father, General Hassan al-Naqib, defected in the 1970s and became an active opposition member in exile.[1]
An ally of Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, he was named the governor of Salah ad Din Governorate after the fall of Saddam Hussein, then he became the Minister of Interior,[2] from 2004 to 2005.
References
[edit]- ^ "IRAQ: The interim government leaders". cfr.org.
- ^ "U.S. commander claims success in Samarra". chinadaily.com.