Kamal Mustafa Abdullah Sultan al-Tikriti (born 1955) was the Secretary General of the

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under the rule of

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolution ...

. He was taken into custody on 17 May 2003. He was the ''Queen of Clubs'' in the deck of

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. On 6 June 2011, Abdullah was sentenced to death for his role in the violent repression of a Shiite uprising in 1991.

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