Rukan Razuki Abd al-Ghafar Sulayman al-Majid al-Tikriti (; 1956-2003) was the head of the tribal affairs office in

Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...

under

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 ...

and a member of Saddam's inner circle. He was #21 on the

U.S. list of most-wanted Iraqis In April 2003, the United States drew up a list of most-wanted Iraqis, consisting of the 55 members of the deposed Ba'athist Iraqi regime whom they most wanted to capture. The list was turned into a set of playing card A playing card is a pi ...

(previously #39), and was represented by the "nine of spades" in the U.S. deck of most-wanted Iraqi playing cards that were printed to accompany the list. Al-Ghafar was killed in an airstrike in 2003.

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1956 births 2003 deaths Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region politicians Deaths by American airstrikes People from Tikrit {{Iraq-bio-stub