Muzahim Sa'ab Hassan al-Tikriti (; born 1949) is a former Iraqi military officer who served as the commander of the Iraqi Air Defense Forces 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 ...

from 1999 until 2003. He was the "Queen of Diamonds" in the US deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards and was taken into custody on 23 April 2003. The

Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal The Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT), formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal and sometimes referred to as the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal, is a body established under Iraqi national law to try Iraqi nationals or residents accused of genocide, crimes ag ...

issued a warrant against Hassan for crimes committed during the

1991 uprisings in Iraq The 1991 Iraqi uprisings were ethnic and religious uprisings against Saddam Hussein, Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist Iraq, Ba'athist regime in Iraq that were led by Shia Islam in Iraq, Shia Arabs and Kurds in Iraq, Kurds. The uprisings lasted f ...

. Muzahim Sa'ab Hassan was released from custody in April 2012.

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Living people Military leaders of the Iraq War Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region politicians 1949 births Iraq War prisoners of war Iraqi prisoners of war {{Iraq-mil-bio-stub Prisoners of war held by the United States