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5th vice president of Iraq From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf (Arabic: طه محيي الدين معروف; 1924 – 7 August 2009) was an Iraqi-Kurdish politician who served as the vice president of Iraq from 1974 until the U.S. invasion in April 2003.[1]
Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf | |
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طه محيي الدين معروف | |
.jpg) Marouf in 1978 | |
| Vice President of Iraq | |
| In office April 1974 – April 2003 Serving with Saddam Hussein (until 1979), Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (after 1979) and Taha Yassin Ramadan (after 1991) | |
| President | Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr Saddam Hussein |
| Preceded by | Salih Mahdi Ammash |
| Succeeded by | Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1924 Sulaymaniyah, Mandatory Iraq |
| Died | 7 August 2009 (aged 84–85) Amman, Jordan |
| Political party | Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
He was born in 1924 in Sulaymaniyah,[2] into a Kurdish family in Kurdistan of Iraq.
Marouf joined the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in 1968 and held several ministerial posts.
Marouf was an ethnic Kurd in Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party hierarchy, but the Kurdish community viewed his appointment as a mere gesture, believing that he had little real power. However, he did serve as ambassador to Italy, Malta, and Albania.[3]
It was announced that Marouf was taken into custody on 2 May 2003.[4] He had been captured with two other Saddam deputies Abd al-Tawab Mullah Huwaysh, director of the Office of Military Industrialization and a deputy prime minister in charge of arms procurement, and Mizban Khadr Hadi commander of one of four military regions Saddam established on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Marouf was #24 (initially #42) on the U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis. He was represented by the nine of diamonds in the most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.[5]
He died on 7 August 2009 in Amman, Jordan. He was buried in Erbil, Iraq, the following day.[3]
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