Abid Hamid Mahmud
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Lieutenant General Abdul Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; Template:Langx) (21 September 1957 – 7 June 2012) was an Iraqi military officer and Saddam Hussein's personal secretary.
Biography
Mahmud began his military career as a non-commissioned officer in the Iraqi Army. He rose through the ranks to Lieutenant-General, becoming part of Saddam Hussein's personal bodyguard detail, and finally, his personal secretary.
A distant cousin of Saddam Hussein, observers regarded Mahmud as being Hussein's right-hand man. He always maintained constant contact with Hussein and acted as a gatekeeper, controlling access to him. He was trusted, along with Saddam's son Qusay Hussein, in overseeing the Iraqi Special Security Organization.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
He was designated ace of diamonds in the U.S. administration's most-wanted Iraqi playing cards and fourth on the most-wanted list after Saddam and his sons Uday and Qusay.
He was captured in a joint raid by members of B Squadron Delta Force and G Squadron SAS<ref>Urban, Mark, Task Force Black: The Explosive True Story of the Secret Special Forces War in Iraq, St. Martin's Griffin, 2012 Template:ISBN Template:ISBN, p.17</ref> and the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment of 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, in Tikrit on 16 June 2003. At the time it was recognized as the "greatest success" since the end of major hostilities, and a sign that Saddam Hussein might soon be found.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
On 29 April 2008, he appeared before the Iraq Special Tribunal set up by the Iraq Interim Government and stood trial with six others including Tariq Aziz, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan and Sabbawi Ibrahim al-Hassan.<ref name=FT>Financial Times, "Aziz on trial over Iraqi killings role", 30 April 2008, p. 6</ref>
On 26 October 2010, he was sentenced to death by the Iraqi High Tribunal after being found guilty of crimes against humanity and genocide for organizing a crackdown against banned political parties in Iraq in the 1980s and 1990s, including assassinations and unlawful detentions.<ref>Senior Saddam aide executed in Iraq, Financial Times, 8 June 2012</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
On 7 June 2012, he was executed by hanging, according to a spokesman of the Iraqi Ministry of Justice.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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