Saadun ad-Dulaimi

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Saadun ad-Dulaimi

Saadun ad-Dulaimi ( Arabic سعدون الدليمي, DMG Saʿdūn ad-Dulaimī ) is a Sunni Iraqi politician and former Minister of Defense of Iraq.

He was an officer in the Iraqi army during Saddam Hussein's time , but fled to Saudi Arabia in 1986 after having been sentenced to death in absentia for participating in a failed assassination attempt on Saddam Hussein. He received his PhD in social psychology in Great Britain and has taught in Jordan and the USA . He is a well-respected psychologist and statistician. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, he returned to Iraq. He is a member of the influential Dulaimi tribe and comes from Ramadi , the capital of the western Iraqi province of al-Anbar , where the resistance against US troops is very strong.

Saadun ad-Dulaimi speaks fluent English and is considered moderate and secular . Observers say ad-Dulaimi was critical of the US-led civil administration of Iraq under Jay Garner and later under Paul Bremer .

He was elected Minister of Defense in the first freely elected Iraqi government since Saddam Hussein. With his appointment, as well as the appointment of Abid Mutlaq al-Dschiburi as deputy prime minister , it is hoped that the Sunni resistance fighters will be appeased and involved in the political process in Iraq.

On May 26, 2005, ad-Dulaimi, together with the Shiite interior minister Bayan Baqir Sulagh, presented a plan to combat terrorism in Baghdad, which provides for barriers to be erected around Baghdad and a total of 40,000 police officers and soldiers to be deployed. Regarding al-Anbar province, ad-Dulaimi said no one would be exempted from the security measures, not even his own brothers.

In April 2006 a cabinet reshuffle took place and his successor in the Ministry of Defense was Abdul Qadir Mohammed Dschasim .