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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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