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Abdul-Wahid Shannan ar-Ribat

Abdul-Wahid Shannan ar-Ribat

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Abdul-Wahid Shannan ar-Ribat (Arabic: عبد الواحد شنان آل رباط) is a former Iraqi Army general.

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Ribat, a Shiite, is from the city of Samawah in Muthanna province. He served as Governor of Nineveh from 17 September 1993 to 13 December 1995, during the reign of Saddam Hussein.[1] He then served as Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Army (from 1995 to 1999).[2][3]

He later went on to become the Governor of Nineveh for the 2nd term (on 8 May 2001), in which capacity he served until the appointment of the new governor by U. S. military administration on 5 May 2003 (after U. S. military occupation of the territory of Iraq, as a result of 2003 invasion of Iraq).[4][5]

Reported death

On 14 June 2014 an Iraqi government spokesperson claimed Ribat was killed in a government airstrike on Mosul as part of the 2014 Northern Iraq Offensive.[6][7][8] Ribat's family however refuted this, and claimed that he was alive and well in the United Arab Emirates, and had no contact with militant groups active in Iraq.[9]

Prosecution of British government ministers

In 2016, he launched a private prosecution of the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, at the time of the invasion of Iraq, as well as the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, and the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith. He alleged that they had committed the crime of aggression by invading Iraq and based his evidence, in part, on the Chilcot Inquiry report. He was represented by Michael Mansfield, QC, a prominent lawyer. His attempt to have the defendants arrested was dismissed by a District Judge at Westminster Magistrates Court in November 2016, but this has been appealed. The current Attorney General has intervened in the case to argue against.[10] In July 2017, the London High Court ruled the prosecution had failed for three reasons: (1) In 2006, the Law Lords had ruled that the crime of aggression is in fact not a crime in England and Wales; (2) The accused had governmental immunity at the time of their actions; (3) Ar-Ribat had not obtained the permission of the sitting UK Attorney General.


References

  1. "Governors and administrators in Nineveh Governorate//Official site of Nineveh Governorate (translation into English)".
  2. "IRAQI REGIONAL COMMANDS" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  3. "Several senior ISIL leaders, former Baath party members killed in Ninevah | Shafaqna India". India.shafaqna.com. 15 June 2014. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  4. مقتل المجرم البعثي عبدالواحد شنان خلال عملية نوعية بالموصل. "مقتل المجرم البعثي عبدالواحد شنان خلال عملية نوعية بالموصل | عراق القانون". Qanon302.net. Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
  5. Police, Vikram Dodd; correspondent, crime (16 April 2017). "UK attorney general in bid to block case against Tony Blair over Iraq war". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 April 2017.



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