Abid Hamid Mahmud

Abid Hamid Mahmud

Lieutenant General Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti was an Iraqi military officer under Saddam Hussein's deposed regime.

Mahmud began his military career as an non-commissioned officer and rose through the ranks, becoming part of Hussein's personal bodyguard, and finally, his personal secretary.

A distant cousin of Hussein, observers regarded Mahmud as being Hussein's right hand man, in constant contact with him and acting as a gatekeeper to access to the leader: he was trusted. With Saddam's son Qusay Hussein, he headed the Iraqi Special Security Organization.

He was designated "ace of diamonds" in the US administrations most-wanted Iraqi playing cards and fourth on the most-wanted list after Saddam and his sons Uday and Qusay.

He was captured in a joint raid by special operations forces and the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment of 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, in June 2003. At the time it was recognized as the "greatest success" since the end of major hostilities, and a sign that Saddam Hussein might soon be found. [cite news |first=Toby |last=Harnden |title=Net closing on Saddam as top aide is captured |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/19/wirq19.xml |publisher=The Telegraph |date=2003-06-18 |accessdate=2008-01-27]

On April 29, 2008, he appeared before the Iraq Special Tribunal set up by the Iraq Interim Government and currently stands trial with six others including Tariq Aziz, Chemical Ali, Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan and Sabbawi Ibrahim al-Hassan. Financial Times; "Aziz on trial over Iraqi killings role"; 30 Apr 2008 ; p6]

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