Mohammed Amza Zubeidi

Mohammed Amza az-Zubeidi (1938–December 2, 2005) (Arabic: محمد حمزة الزبيدي‎) was the Prime Minister of Iraq from 1991 to 1993. He is on the "Saddam's Dirty Dozen" list of people responsible for torture and murder in Iraq, playing a key role in Iraq's brutal suppression of the Shiite Muslim uprising of 1991. He was featured in Iraqi news film kicking and beating captured Shiite rebels. Although a Shiite himself, az-Zubeidi was a Ba'athist whose loyalty lay with his ethnicity (Arab) rather than his personal faith. He played a key part in the suppression of the multi-ethnic Shiite uprising in March 1991. After that, he became the country's prime minister in September and remained in this position for two years, until he was replaced by...