Rafi Abd Latif Talfah al-Tikriti
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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