Kamal Mustafa Abdullah Sultan al-Tikriti (; born 1952) was the Secretary General of the

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under the rule of

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until Saddam Hussein statue destruction, his overthrow in 2003 during the 2003 invasion of Ira ...

. He was taken into custody on 17 May 2003. His brother,

Jamal Mustafa Abdullah Jamal Mustafa Abdullah Sultan (; born 4 May 1955) was a deputy in charge of the file for tribes and clans in Saddam Hussein's government and husband of Hala Hussein, Saddam's youngest daughter. His brother, Kamal Mustafa Abdullah, was the Secret ...

, was Saddam Hussein's son-in-law. He was the "Queen of Clubs", in the U.S. deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards. 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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1952 births Living people People from Tikrit Military leaders of the Iraq War Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region politicians Iraqi prisoners sentenced to death Iraq War prisoners of war Iraqi prisoners of war {{Iraq-politician-stub