Abdul_Karim_al-Shaikhly

Abdul Karim al-Shaikhly

Abdul Karim al-Shaikhly

68th Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs

Abdul Karim al-Shaikhly (Arabic: عبدالكريم الشيخلي; 28 April 1937 – 1980), was an Iraqi politician, diplomat and minister.[1] Al-Shaikhly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 31 July 1968 to 29 September 1971 and Iraq's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1972 to 1974.[2] The Iraqi security forces arrested him and he stayed there about two years before the Iraqi security forces released him in 1980.[3] The Iraqi Intelligence Service assassinated al-Shaikhly on April 8, 1980 in Baghdad.[4] Coming from an aristocratic family, he was a cousin and classmate of Saddam Hussein and it is believed Saddam used his birthday as his own.[5][6]

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    "قصة حياة عبدالكريم الشيخلي و وزراء اخرين". Algardenia. January 31, 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-02-04.
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    "قصر النهاية". Alshirazi. Archived from the original on 2003-03-03.
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    "بعثيون من العراق اغتالهم صدام". News Abah. July 11, 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-09-05.
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    "يوم إعدام الطاغية صدام يوم الأحزان". Gov.Krd. January 5, 2007. Archived from the original on 2021-01-09.
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    Coughlin, Con (2002). Saddam : The secret life. ISBN 9780330393102.
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    "PREVIOUS MOFA MINISTERS". MOFA. Archived from the original on 2019-05-12.
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