Ibrahim Sabawi Ibrahim () (October 25, 1983, Baghdad - May 20, 2015, Baiji) was

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's half-nephew and an

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. Ibrahim's father was

Sabawi Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti (; 27 February 1947 – 8 July 2013), Sibling#Half, half-brother of Saddam Hussein, was the leader of the Iraqi secret service, the ''Iraqi Intelligence Service, Mukhabarat'', at the time of the 1991 Gulf War. He was the ...

, Saddam's half-brother, the 'Six of Diamonds' in the U.S. military's

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due to his leading Iraqi secret intelligence. Sabawi Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti and at least two sons (Ibrahim Sabawi Ibrahim and his older brother, Ayman Sabawi Ibrahim) were captured by Iraqi and coalition forces near Saddam's hometown of

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in February, 2005. Ibrahim Sabawi Ibrahim escaped from a prison near Mosul the following year while serving sentences for illegal weapons possession and the manufacture of explosive devices used in terror attacks. His father died from cancer in a Baghdad hospital in 2013.

Death

Iraqi media, on authority of the Baath party and Islamic State supporters, reported Ibrahim Sabawi Ibrahim having been killed in a battle between Iraqi military forces and Iranian-backed Shiite militias in or near the contested oil refinery at Baiji, Iraq, on May 20, 2015.

References

1981 births Tulfah family Iraqi Sunni Muslims Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members from Iraq 2015 deaths {{Iraq-bio-stub, Ibrahim, Ibrahim Sabawi