Rafi Abd Latif Talfah al-Tikriti
Most-wanted Iraqi playing card of Rafi
Director of the General Security
Personal details
Born1954 (1954)
Tikrit, Iraq
Political partyBa'ath Party
RelationsHani (brother)
Khairallah (uncle)
Subha (aunt)
Badra (aunt)
Saddam Hussein (cousin)

Rafi ibn Abd al-Latif ibn Talfah (Arabic: رافع عبد اللطيف طلفاح التكريتي; born in 1954 in Tikrit) was the last head of the Iraqi Directorate of General Security secret police force at the end of President Saddam Hussein's reign. A maternal cousin of Saddam,[1] Rafi went into hiding during the Iraq War, when a United States-led Coalition invaded the country and overthrew Hussein's government. A key aide to general al-Douri, Rafi al-Tikriti provided information and actionable intelligence on antiregime individuals and opposition groups in each governorate of Iraq, particularly Kurdish, Iranian, and Turkmen.[2]

Career

Rafi was the jack of hearts in the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards developed by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency during the war in Iraq. As of 2020, he is still at large.[3][4]

In 2018, Iraqi authorities published a list of the 60 most-wanted people, among them Rafi.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "IRAQ: The Most Wanted". Council on Foreign Relations. Archived from the original on 2019-05-23. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  2. ↑ Nance, Malcolm (2014). The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003–2014. CRC Press. pp. 76–77.
  3. ↑ "Iraq Most Wanted Fast Facts". CNN. Archived from the original on 2020-07-21. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  4. ↑ "Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations: 2 Mar 2009: Hansard Written Answers". TheyWorkForYou. Archived from the original on 2018-07-15. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  5. ↑ "فيديو | هكذا ردت رغد صدام حسين على حكومة بغداد". وكالة وطن للأنباء. Archived from the original on 2018-02-19. Retrieved 2020-07-23.


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