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Rafi Abd Latif Tilfah

Rafi Abd Latif Tilfah

Iraqi official

Rafi ibn Abd al-Latif ibn Talfah (Arabic: رافع عبد اللطيف طلفاح التكريتي; born in 1954 in Tikrit) was the last head of the Iraqi Directorate of General Security secret police force at the end of President Saddam Hussein's reign. A maternal cousin of Saddam,[1] Rafi went into hiding during the Iraq War, when a United States-led Coalition invaded the country and overthrew Saddam Hussein's government. A key aide to General al-Douri, Rafi al-Tikriti provided information and actionable intelligence on anti-regime individuals and opposition groups in each governorate of Iraq, particularly Kurdish, Iranian, and Turkmen.[2]

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Career

Rafi was the "jack of hearts" in the US deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards during the Iraq War. As of 2020, he is still at large.[3][4]

In 2018, Iraqi authorities published a list of the 60 most-wanted people, among them Rafi.[5]

References

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    "IRAQ: The Most Wanted". Council on Foreign Relations. Archived from the original on 2019-05-23. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
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    Nance, Malcolm (2014). The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003–2014. CRC Press. pp. 76–77.
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    "Iraq Most Wanted Fast Facts". CNN. Archived from the original on 2020-07-21. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
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    "Iraq: Peacekeeping Operations: 2 Mar 2009: Hansard Written Answers". TheyWorkForYou. Archived from the original on 2018-07-15. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
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    "فيديو | هكذا ردت رغد صدام حسين على حكومة بغداد". وكالة وطن للأنباء. Archived from the original on 2018-02-19. Retrieved 2020-07-23.


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