Hamid Raja Shalah
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Hamid Raja Shalah (Template:Langx), also known as Hamid Raja-Shalah Hassan al-Tikriti or Hamid Raja-Shalah Hassum al-Tikriti (born 1950)[1] is a former commander of the Iraqi Air Force under Saddam Hussein.
Career
During Shalah's air force career, he served as a pilot. In the 1980s, during the Iran–Iraq War, Shalah commanded several air bases, including the Kirkuk air base. He rose to three-star rank and was appointed Commander-in-chief of the Iraqi Air Force in the mid-1990s.[2]
He was reported by the United States Central Command to be in coalition custody on June 14, 2003. Prior to his capture, Shalah was number 17 (ten of spades) in the U.S. deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards.[3]
He was held as a prisoner of war until his release in 2007.[4]
References
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- ↑ U.S. Designates 55 Most Wanted Iraqi Officials Part of Ongoing Effort to Secure and Return Iraqi Assets to the Iraqi People Template:Webarchive
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- 1950 births
- Iraqi Air Force air marshals
- Iraqi generals
- Iraqi military personnel of the Iran–Iraq War
- Living people
- Military leaders of the Iraq War
- Iraq War prisoners of war
- Iraqi prisoners of war
- Prisoners of war held by the United States
- Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region politicians