Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif

Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif ( Arabic عبد الرزاق النايف, DMG ʿAbd ar-Razzāq an-Nāyif ; * 1933; † July 9, 1978 in London ) was an Iraqi politician and Prime Minister of Iraq in 1968 . His term of office lasted only 13 days, from July 17, 1968 to July 30, 1968. He had succeeded Prime Minister Tahir Yahya , who had been deposed by the military and whose further fate could not be precisely determined. On July 17, President Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr took power in a bloodless coup and installed an-Naif. 13 days later, however, al-Bakr took over the post of president as well as that of prime minister. An-Naif was finally murdered on July 9, 1978 in British exile in London, ten years later. The assassin was quickly caught and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1979.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article in the Guardian