Naji Talib
Naji Talib ( Arabic ناجي طالب, DMG Nāǧī Ṭālib ; * 1917 in Nasiriya ; † March 24, 2012 in Baghdad ) was an Iraqi general , foreign minister and prime minister of his country.
Life
After training as an officer at a British military academy and serving as a military attaché at the Iraqi embassy in London (1954/1955), Talib had already joined the republican "Free Officers" against the Hashimite monarchy in 1956. After General Abd al-Karim Qasim and Colonel Abd al-Salam Arif , Major Talib was the third most important putschist who planned the revolution of July 14, 1958 . Talib was a Shiite ; he was first minister of social affairs in Qasim's revolutionary government, but resigned after Kassim had condemned Arif in early February 1959.
Until the Baathist coup on February 8, 1963, he remained in the background conspiratorially and apparently did not take part in the murder of Qasim, but in March 1963 he became Minister of Industry in the cabinet of Baathist Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr . During the military coup of November 18, 1963 , he supported President Arif and Prime Minister Tahir Yahya and became a general. After Arif's death, the generals urged his successor, Abd ar-Rahman Arif, to recall the civilian prime minister, Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz, who ruled all too independently . As a compromise candidate for the various military factions, Talib was appointed prime minister, who also had good contacts with the Nasserists under ex-prime minister Arif Abd ar-Razzaq , who had repeatedly put up for unification with Egypt .
On August 9, 1966, the Shiite Talib formed an apolitical technocrat consisting of seven officers and twelve civilians (including three Kurds and one Assyrian) - "Cabinet of National Unity", which broke off the negotiations with the Kurds that had started by al-Bazzaz Fight resumed in Kurdistan. He appointed Adnan Pachachi as Foreign Minister .
As Prime Minister himself and Oil Minister himself, Talib arbitrated the oil dispute between Iraq, Syria and the Iraq Petroleum Company with surprising skill in 1966, which, however, once again postponed necessary reforms. In Iraqi Kurdistan, Talib's government supported the Barzani- hostile Talabani faction with money and weapons and thus contributed to the split in the KDP , without however being able to win a victory over the uprising.
The unsuccessfulness quickly deprived him of the support of the officer corps , and Talib finally fell on May 10, 1967 over intergroup fighting in the military . President Arif temporarily took over government himself. A year later, Talib, along with ar-Razzaq and Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr, issued an ultimatum to Arif to avert a coup. After the Ba'ath Party came to power again in 1968, Talib was finally retired, after whose overthrow in 2003 he returned from exile to Iraq. In Fallujah , he called on the US occupiers to exercise moderation.
swell
- Marion and Peter Sluglett: Iraq since 1958 - From Revolution to Dictatorship . Suhrkamp Frankfurt 1991
- The International Who's Who 1988/89. Fifty-Second Edition. Europa Publications Limited 1988 London
Web links
- Naji Talib , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 44/1966 of October 24, 1966, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
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Abd al-Karim Qasim | Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr | Tahir Yahya | Arif Abd ar-Razzaq | Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz | Naji Talib | Abd ar-Rahman Arif | Tahir Yahya | Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif | Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr | Saddam Hussein | Saadun Hammadi | Muhammad Hamza al-Zubaidi | Ahmad Hussein Chudair | Saddam Hussein | Iyad Allawi | Ibrahim al-Jafari | Nuri al-Maliki | Haider al-Abadi | Adil Abd al-Mahdi | Mustafa Al-Kadhimi
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Talib, Naji |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iraqi general and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nasiriya |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 2012 |
| Place of death | Baghdad |