Saadoun Shakir
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Saadoun Shakir was an Iraqi politician and intelligence official. He served as the first director of Mukhabarat, the Iraqi Intelligence Service,[1] from 1973 to 1977. A cousin of Saddam Hussein[2] and a member of the Baath Party, he had previously helped run a cell of Jihaz Haneen, a paramilitary organization.[1][3] In 1979, he was appointed as Iraq's Minister of Interior.[4]
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