Talib El-Shibib, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Iraqi politician
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Place of Birth: Hillah, Babylon Governorate, Iraq
About Talib El-Shibib
- Talib El-Shibib (22 March 1934 – 12 October 1997) was an Iraqi politician.
- Born in Babylon Province, he studied engineering at Imperial College in London. El-Shibib was elected to the leadership of Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and was one of a triumvirate who planned the later coup against President Abdul Karim Qassim.
- He became foreign minister under the new regime in 1963. Internal disagreements led him to go in exile.
- After the second coup in 1968, El-Shibib was given several ambassadorial posts.
- In 1976 he resigned from the post as Iraqi ambassador to Germany and went into exile again when disagreements arose between him and Saddam Hussein’s policies.
- He devoted the remainder of his life in exile while campaigning against Saddam and for a democratic Iraq.
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