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Salah Al-Mukhtar
Salah Al-Mukhtar
صلاح المختار
Secretary General of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 3 November 2020
Preceded by	Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
Personal details
Born	1944 (age 79–80); Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq
Political party	Iraqi Ba'ath
Occupation	Politician, diplomat
Military service
Allegiance	Iraq
Branch/service	Iraqi Army
Years of service	c. late 1970s - c. late 1980s
Rank	Colonel

Salah Al-Mukhtar (Arabic: صلاح المختار; born 1944 in Baghdad) is the foremost resisting Ba'athist leader of Iraq. He was Deputy General Secretary of the Arab League and Saddam Hussein's ambassador to many countries.^[1]^[2]

He served in the Iran-Iraq war within the Iraqi Army attaining the rank of Colonel.

He left Iraq for Yemen due to the war in 2003, he then went to Germany during the Arab Spring in 2011.^[3] Since 3 November 2020 he has been head of the Ba'ath party in Iraq.^[4]

References

^ Salah Al-Mukhtar, tlaxcala.es, archived from the original on 2016-03-04, retrieved 2021-08-07
^ Iraqi Opposition Leader Speaks, brussellstribunal.org, archived from the original on 2012-03-28, retrieved 2012-04-02
^ "تصدعات البعث العراقي: تخوين واتهامات بالجاسوسية". elaph.com (in Arabic). 25 June 2021. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
^ Преемником Иззата Ибрагима ад-Дури на посту Генерального секретаря партии «Баас» стал заслуженный дипломат Саддама Хусейна Archived 2021-08-07 at the Wayback Machine // Голос Арабов, 18 лістапада 2020 (суполка ў «УКантакце»)

External links

[1] Salah Al-Mukhtar, tlaxcala.es, archived from the original on 2016-03-04, retrieved 2021-08-07

[2] Iraqi Opposition Leader Speaks, brussellstribunal.org, archived from the original on 2012-03-28, retrieved 2012-04-02

[3] "تصدعات البعث العراقي: تخوين واتهامات بالجاسوسية". elaph.com (in Arabic). 25 June 2021. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

[4] Преемником Иззата Ибрагима ад-Дури на посту Генерального секретаря партии «Баас» стал заслуженный дипломат Саддама Хусейна Archived 2021-08-07 at the Wayback Machine // Голос Арабов, 18 лістапада 2020 (суполка ў «УКантакце»)

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